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As of Dec. 17, 156 people were shot to that point in 2023. That is compared to 245 over the same period in 2022, a decrease of 36%, according to

The state's adding more funding for supportive services. It's services such as legal defense to help people getting back into the world.

Peaceprints of Western New York supports people who have just been released from jail or prison and helps them get back on their feet.

The white dove I Leave Peaceprint signs have been placed in honor of the ten victims who lost their lives in Saturday’s mass shooting at the Tops Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo.

WBFO's Thomas O'Neil-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 though it is cheaper than prison, Grawert said whenever a parolee goes back to prison on a techni...