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03/08/2021

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01/29/2021

NY lawmakers are planning visits to prisons and jails across the state to see firsthand how the COVID pandemic has impacted incarcerated people.

"It is particularly powerful for me, as someone who has spent time behind the wall to see legislators making these visits to their incarcerated constituents. There's no worse feeling than sitting in a cage at the mercy of someone who doesn’t care if you live or die." - Marvin Mayfield, CCA Statewide Organizer

State lawmakers will tour an upstate facility on Saturday as they urge officials to speed up vaccinations for inmates and call for the passage of a legislative package dubbed the “Justice Roadmap.”

12/01/2020

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11/20/2020

The end of in-person schooling is being felt even worse by children in city detention centers due to strict online instruction rules. Advocates say the students risk being left further behind.

09/18/2020

"We are beginning to see the devastating consequences of rollbacks to bail reform." - Katie Schaffer, CCA Director of Advocacy and Organizing

The population of people housed in the state’s local county jails rose from from a daily average of 11,090 in July to 11,583 in August, according to the Department of Criminal Justice Services, the first time the state’s jail population has risen month-to-month since Sep. 2019.

09/02/2020

Housing keeps families together and builds strong communities. But for New Yorkers with conviction records, it’s a right that’s too often denied.

City Council Member Stephen Levin just introduced a bill (Intro #2047-2020) that would make housing discrimination based on someone’s record illegal. Let’s get this passed.

Sign on: https://bit.ly/FairChanceNYC

To stay up-to-date and get involved, follow the Fair Chance for Housing Campaign on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FairHousing_NYC and sign the petition at h...

08/28/2020

CCA is hiring! Click here to see all our open positions: https://bit.ly/CCAjobs

08/25/2020

07/06/2020

The rollbacks are “nothing short of devastating for Black and brown communities who have been the target of mass criminalization and state violence.” - Marvin Mayfield, CCA Statewide Organizer

More than two dozen offenses are once again bail eligible.

06/29/2020

Tell your NYC Council member: Vote NO to any budget that uses funny math & doesn't 's almost $6B FY21 expense budget by at least $1B; doesn't redirect $1B+ from those NYPD cuts to communities; cuts social safety net; moves cops around instead of reducing policing.

05/08/2020

"The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn is 'ill equipped' to identify cases of COVID-19 and stop the disease from spreading among its nearly 1,700 detainees, according to a doctor who visited the federal jail last month."

A former chief medical officer for the city jails said that the jail was "ill-equipped" to stop the spread of COVID-19, and that jail administrators were destroying medical records.