These New Yorkers Went to Prison Over and Over. Then This Thing Happened.

These New Yorkers went to prison over and over. Then this thing happened. – New York State is paying top dollar to imprison people suffering from addiction and mental illness. Is that the best use of taxpayer money? Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI), involving programs like drug treatment and intensive counseling, are both cheaper and more effective at stopping the cycle of crime. Putting ATI in the Governor’s Executive Budget would provide a sustained, stable funding stream to maximize the impact of these cost-effective programs. This video was made in partnership with the ATI-Reentry Coalition of New York.

Missionary and explorer George Patterson dies at 93

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… as a writer and broadcaster began to take off – he wrote articles for the Statesman of Calcutta, the British Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Observer and contributed to international newspapers and journals such as the New York Times, Spectator …
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Mexicans protest dog detentions, tests negative

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But those findings have been met with widespread skepticism in a country where drug gangs frequently dump bodies of their victims in public spaces, and prosecutors seldom thoroughly investigate such crimes. The idea has taken hold among many that …
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