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Advocates: NY leaving inmates vulnerable to virus | News, Sports, Jobs

CNHI Adirondack Correctional Facility, a state prison in Ray Brook for older inmates, is seen in July 2020. (Enterprise photo — Peter Crowley) ALBANY New York’s prison inmates age 65 and older are being offered vaccinations for COVID-19 but criminal justice reformers argue the state’s effort leaves out the majority of the incarcerated population. They’re demanding that all incarcerated individuals get the chance to be inoculated immediately, arguing the state’s own infection data shows people held in prisons and jails are at grave risk of being exposed to the coronavirus. – – “All of the public health experts say it is clear as day that everybody in congregate settings, including incarcerated people and the staff working in the prisons and jails, should be vaccinated,” David George, director of the Release Aging People in Prison campaign, told CNHI. His group was one of more than 30 organizations that this week sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo im

Redistricting amendment will be on NY ballots in fall

Aaron Cerbone Adirondack Daily Enterprise A state constitutional amendment on changing redistricting rules, which has been quietly making its way through the Legislature for two years, will be on the ballot for all New York voters Nov. 2. These new rules give more redistricting power to a party with a majority in the Senate and Assembly, which is currently the Democratic Party. The state is heading toward a once-a-decade redrawing of state and federal district lines in January 2022. This includes the districts for state Senate and Assembly, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. This constitutional amendment, supported by most state Legislature Democrats, would reduce the vote threshold needed for a one-party-led Legislature to approve plans submitted by the Independent Redistricting Commission from a two-thirds vote to a simple-majority vote, reversing portions of another constitutional amendment voters passed in 2014.

Fact check: Stefanik wrong about Cuomo being part of constitutional amendment on redistricting rules

North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik issued a statement Thursday blasting state Democrats for passing a constitutional amendment, which if approved by voters, would change redistricting rules. She focused most

Elise Stefanik wrong about Cuomo being a part of the redistricting rules | News, Sports, Jobs

Adirondack Daily Enterprise North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik issued a statement Thursday blasting state Democrats for passing a constitutional amendment, which if approved by voters, would change redistricting rules. She focused most of her ire at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the governor has nothing to with state constitutional amendments. Her statement contained political concern over a constitutional amendment New Yorkers will vote on in November, but it was misleading in its allegation toward Cuomo. “The Worst Governor in America and Albany Democrats continue to crush and ignore the will of the people of New York,” she wrote in a press release.

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