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State Budget Gives Prisons Half-Billion-Dollar Boost While Threatening Oversight Programs

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By Chris Gelardi 
| New York FOCUS
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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State Budget Gives Prisons Half-Billion-Dollar Boost While Threatening Oversight Programs

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By Chris Gelardi 
| News from the States
This year’s final New York state budget includes a pot of money meant for “stabilizing the correctional system,” an effort to address the ongoing fallout from a three-week corrections officer strike last year. The amount is hefty: $535 million on top of the prison agency’s roughly $4 billion annual budget.
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Jail Oversight Body Hamstrung Until Hochul Staffs Its Leadership

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By Chris Gelardi 
| New York FOCUS
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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