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Testimony of CDF-NY before the Assembly Standing Committee on Codes and the Assembly Standing Committee on Correction

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Public comment concerning the proposed Restrictive Housing rules

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We Should Be Investing in Education, not Incarceration

Earlier this school year, 6-year-old Kaia was handcuffed, arrested, and taken to a juvenile detention center where she was charged with battery for having a tantrum in her first grade class. How Kaia was treated is appalling, and yet the criminalization of our children is all too common: A child is arrested every 39 seconds in America and about 76,000 children are placed in the adult criminal justice system annually.

October 15, 2019 | National

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Public comments concerning the reclassification of two existing adult correctional facilities to Adolescent Offender Facilities

Public comments on the proposed amendments to sections 100.6 and 100.75 of Title 7 NYCRR, concerning the reclassification of two existing adult correctional facilities to Adolescent Offender Facilities, pursuant to Raise the Age (Correction Law, section 70, et seq.).

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