Akash Mehta

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    Sep 27

    A key set of actors has largely escaped scrutiny for driving up the number of people waiting for their trials at Rikers and fueling the current crisis: New York City's judges. and I dove into the data to find out how - and who. (1/x)

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    Oct 7

    I think they should nuke Deep Springs

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    One of America's most selective colleges requires hard labor, forbids drinking and sits isolated in the California desert. reports, Sunday.
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  3. Oct 6

    Must-read from .

    NEW: More than 335,000 people have applied for the Excluded Workers Fund, and thousands more apply each day. But about $1.8 billion has already been disbursed or promised to the 116,000 applicants approved so far - leaving just $300 million for the rest.
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    Oct 4

    I had high hopes for to when and first got the thing going. Never imagined they’d be hiring one of my favorite journalists and former colleagues within such a short period of time. Unbelievably positive news for the people of New York.

    Some profesh news: The past few months I've been thinking a lot about local news and making it more sustainable, which is why I'm so excited to join as executive editor, helping to further build a newsroom that holds NY power accountable. Pitch me: rebecca@nysfocus.com
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    Oct 4

    We couldn't be more thrilled to announce that is joining our team as executive editor!

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  6. Oct 4

    Couldn't be more excited to welcome Rebecca to our team as executive editor!

    Some profesh news: The past few months I've been thinking a lot about local news and making it more sustainable, which is why I'm so excited to join as executive editor, helping to further build a newsroom that holds NY power accountable. Pitch me: rebecca@nysfocus.com
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    Oct 3

    Next Sunday on 60 Minutes, reports on Deep Springs College, where riding and ranching are as much a part of the curriculum as philosophy and calculus.

    Next week on 60 Minutes: A college with an Old West campus
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  8. Oct 1

    Follow along!

    As with the City Council hearing a couple weeks ago, the first testimony before the NY Assembly Corrections Committee today will come from First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan, NYC Corrections Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi, and president Benny Boscio, Jr..
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    Oct 1

    “Legislators including the members who helped draft the legislation believe co-ops are included,” he points out, “and we said that during the hearing.”

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    Oct 1

    NEW: FEMA says it’s finally ending subsidies to dangerous coastal development. But new flood insurance rates will be slow-walked and the program remains insolvent, NFIP head told me on a press call. That's likely because it doesn’t price in climate risk:

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    Sep 30

    NEW: NY's rent relief program is shutting out co-op owners, claiming "the Legislature did not include co-ops as eligible." Legislators disagree. "Staff at OTDA seem to be ignoring the plain meaning of the law," said Senate Housing Chair .

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    Sep 30

    SCOOP: NY's 100Ks of co-op owners are being blocked from obtaining emergency rent relief, even though they're usually treated as tenants in other state laws. this has left many co-ops, especially low-income ones, struggling to pay their bills. w/

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    Sep 30

    After 9/11, nearly 1,000 Muslim immigrants were wrongfully imprisoned and deported In New York, 20 years ago today, two innocent Egyptian brothers were kidnaped by the state and sent to Brooklyn’s Guantanamo Read about it in my latest for

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  14. Sep 30

    I'd add that the monitor has retained an independent expert to conduct a thorough staffing evaluation, but cautioned that it would take "many months."

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  15. Sep 30

    "Rikers has a dramatically higher staffing ratio than any other jail in the country—even on days when ~2,000 people are unavailable to work." "Even on the days with the most sick calls, the ratio of guards available to work to incarcerated people was at or near a 30-year peak."

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  16. Sep 30

    This quote from the federal monitor is key: “An abundance of Staff appear to diffuse Staff’s sense of responsibility and leads them to believe that ‘someone else will handle the problem’—creating the classic ‘bystander effect’ in which Staff do not uphold standards of conduct.”

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  17. Sep 30

    The crisis at Rikers has more to do with overstaffing than understaffing, argues, citing and 's articles for . (1/x)

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    Sep 29

    Adding an example. This just happened to an immunocompromised unhoused man accused of stealing blankets. His assessment for likelihood to return to court is near perfect. Judge didn't wanna hear anything and refused to say why he set unaffordable bail.

    .'s chronicle of one case before Judge Herbert Moses (third on our list of the most prolific bail-setters in NYC) shows how arraignments actually work.
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  19. Sep 29

    "Paris’ social housing agencies are working to do their part to meet the city’s climate plan, which calls for 60% energy savings in residential buildings by 2030."

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  20. Sep 28

    .'s chronicle of one case before Judge Herbert Moses (third on our list of the most prolific bail-setters in NYC) shows how arraignments actually work.

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    Sep 28

    In New York City, & report, setting bail usually means sending a person to jail.

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