Network in the Prisons and in the Community

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Network in the Prisons and in the Community are therapeutic communities that successfully change the dysfunctional thinking of incarcerated individuals, helping them to reach their potential behind the walls and in their home communities upon release.

04/02/2018

Children who struggle with mental health issues are often swept up in the justice system. Honor perpetrates a violent crime, but instead of jail, he gets a shot at a diversion program. 

04/02/2018

Rikers or a shelter? Neither is a good alternative. Not for community safety. Not for taxpayers. Not for anything. Surely there's a better way.

03/09/2018

Five men became the first graduates of NYU’s Prison Education Program at Wallkill Correctional Facility on October 12, 2017. The graduates earned Associate…

03/08/2018

Federal inmates who are aging or very sick can ask for “compassionate release.” Hundreds have died waiting for an answer.

03/02/2018

“We were trying to make a difference,” says former Rikers Island correctional officer Jamel Shabazz. Now that he’s retired, he still is, as are other people connected to the justice system.

03/02/2018

The ability to send books to prisoners will grind to a halt throughout New York unless the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision declines to…

02/03/2018

Even as the number of prisoners falls, parole violators are an increasing percentage of the imprisoned, often jailed for as little as missing a curfew.

01/21/2018

After peaking in 2008, the nation’s imprisonment rate fell 11 percent over eight years, reaching its lowest level since 1997, according to an analysis of new federal statistics by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

01/15/2018

New York is testing a new policy that would require all packages for prisoners to be ordered through a handful of state-approved vendors.

12/07/2017

Emily Dewar-Langridge teaches young offenders at Feltham prison, and has won an award for the difference she’s made to students. Here, she explains her role

11/24/2017

Ms. Brown was 16 when she shot and killed a 43-year-old man who had hired her as a pr******te. Her supporters say she was a s*x trafficking victim who deserves leniency.

11/13/2017

Her new initiative, called the Bail Project, hopes to free 150,000 people in jail on bail in 40 cities in the next five years.

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555 Bergen Avenue
New York, NY
10455

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