ACP coordinates the assignment of attorneys to represent individuals who cannot afford to retain an attorney in various Criminal and Family Court matters.
Five years after New York enacted the landmark Less Is More Act, the measure has cut the state’s parole population in half, reduced incarceration in state prisons for parole violations by 84% and sharply reduced the number of people jailed for technical violations, according to a statement issued by the Katal Center. ... See MoreSee Less
Five years following its enactment, New York's Less Is More Act has reduced the state's parole population by 50% and decreased incarceration for technical violations by 84%, according to analyses from...
Over and over, women’s clothing, hair, body parts, extramarital affairs, relationships, sexual proclivities and accusations around bad mothering appeared in their trials, even when these details were irrelevant to the crimes. ... See MoreSee Less
A federal judge has ruled that Border Patrol agents illegally stopped an immigrant after hearing a group of people he was with speak Spanish in a Central New York Walmart store. ... See MoreSee Less
“Corrections officers have been against HALT since before it was passed by the legislature … have continued to be resistant to implementing HALT, and have also continued to scapegoat HALT for any violence or the conditions in general inside the prison system,” said Bernadette Rabuy, a senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). ... See MoreSee Less