New Yorkers would avoid jail time for non-violent parole violations, and children under age 12 could no longer be arrested as juveniles under bills that passed.
SEATTLE After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a trial is underway to determine whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning and other tasks at its immigration detention center in Washington state.
“New York’s parole system is broken, biased, and expensive, and from Brooklyn to Buffalo, New Yorkers agree that it is past time we enact commonsense reforms,” said NYUJ executive director Alexander Horwitz.