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Staten Island, Bronx Prisons Among Those Now Closed In New York
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Jan 03The state recently closed the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island, the seventh prison, camp or work release facility shuttered in 2011 as New York transferred about 2,600 inmates and 1,400 staff to its 60 remaining penal units in an effo... »
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Brigham Young’s grandson kills a midtown woman
Ephemeral New York
Feb 05On September 19, 1902, the body of a young woman turned up in a canal in Jersey City. Police identified the corpse as that of Anna Pulitzer, a married prostitute who lived on Broadway and West 46th Street. Police fanned out to solve the crime. A crucia... »
Will Cuomo Make Any Pardons?
Capitol Confidential
Dec 24One of the powers that the Governor of New York has is the ability to grant clemency or outright pardons to prisoners. Over the years, many people have seen their sentences reduced, most of them victims of the stiff Rockefeller Drug Laws. One of them w... »
A Man Who Knew About the Electric Chair
NYTimes.com City Room
Nov 06Louis E. Lawes, warden of Sing Sing for 21 years, tried unsuccessfully to lobby New York to abolish the death penalty. »