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Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on the Curecanti legislation in the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act. By BRUCE NOBLE The agreement that launched Curecanti National Recreation Area in 1965 was signed by three interesting men. Foremost among them was the renowned conservationist and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall. Among other things, Udall stood next to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House when the Wilderness Act was signed i...

NieR Reincarnation, new gameplay and info for the NieR Replicant remaster and most notably revealing Papa NieR can be playable through a certain DLC, here are all the details. During the stream, Square Enix published a new trailer detailing the NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 additional content. The stream also featured several gameplay parts. Lastly, the segment of the stream exclusive to Niconico Premium also included exclusive gameplay of the Barren Temple. You can find it all further bel...

BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) — Advocates in Binghamton gathered on Thursday to back parole reform legislation pushed by some lawmakers in Albany and ask for further changes to prevent re-incarceration. One of the bills garnering attention would expand parole eligibility to those who are 55 or older and serving long sentences. Another would change the basis for granting parole from a person’s crime to their change while in prison. Advocates outside Binghamton City Hall applauded those reforms but a...

arrow The inside of a solitary confinement cell on Rikers Island in 2017. Bebeto Matthews/AP/Shutterstock On Wednesday night, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that will limit the use of solitary confinement for people locked up in New Yorks prisons. The laws passage is a significant victory for criminal justice reform advocates, who have pointed to the deaths of New Yorkers like Kalief Browder and Layleen Polanco as evidence that solitary confinement is cruel and immoral. ...

Meanwhile In Albany, Lawmakers Consider An Ambitious Array Of Criminal Justice Reforms arrow Thick spools of barbed wire surround a jail complex on Rikers Island. Bebeto Matthews/AP/Shutterstock In the midst of a chaotic legislative session in which the governor faces growing calls for his resignation, state lawmakers and advocates say that they are determined to pass an ambitious package of bills aimed at overhauling the states parole system, banning solitary confinemen...

WBFOs Thomas ONeil-White reports. As the Executive Director of PeacePrints Western New York, McEachon’s goal is to provide a link to services on the outside for people at the end of their journey through the state prison system. A system which overwhelming houses Black and Brown bodies. McEachon echoes many criminal justice reformers when she said former inmates are often ill-prepared to re-enter society after a lengthy prison sentence. “But what you know on the outside is a memory,” she ...

WBFOs Thomas ONeil-White reports. Ames Grawart is the Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School. He points to the hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars spent each year to maintain post-release supervision as an example wasteful spending. “At a simple, fiscal level, we know that it costs around $20,000 a year to incarcerate someone in New York State prisons,” he said. “By comparison, a year of parole supervision costs around $2,000.” Even...

President Donald Trump’s term has come to a fateful end. Now, some are wondering what an America under Joe Biden’s administration will look like.

Infographic: Are Cannabis Stocks Poised To Light Up? By Felix Richter After the House passed the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act in December – paving the way for federal decriminalization of cannabis – and Democrats took control of the Senate in the Georgia runoffs, it looks like 2021 could be a big year for the cannabis industry. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 15 states and three territories have legalized adult-use of...

Westword: Do you have more confidence in recent federal cannabis bills like the Safe Banking Act or MORE Act now that Democrats control the Senate? Christian Sederberg: Im optimistic about everything. The biggest challenge in the last several years has been that even once something gets out of the House, like what we saw with the MORE and Safe Banking Acts, it didnt have any chance of being put on the agenda in the Senate, because of the previous leadership. Thats very deflating, and its a ha...