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A landmark 2024 settlement between New York’s attorney general and one of the state’s largest nursing home chains succeeded at improving care, reducing injuries, and professionalizing its staff, according to a new report from the independent monitor who oversaw the settlement.
The settlement was the result of a 2023 lawsuit by Attorney General Letitia James against the ...
Over the past two and a half years, 17-year-old Ana Ortega has visited dozens of high school classrooms across the South Bronx and Harlem, leading conversations about consent, healthy dating behaviors, and safe sex with students her own age.
“A lot of teenagers don’t want to talk to adults because they don’t want to be judged,” she said.
Ortega is a peer mentor ...
Three apples and one petite banana. These were the only fresh produce items on the general-confinement menu in New York state prisons during one recent week this July. Those with money can buy additional produce from the commissary, but the selection isn’t much better — cucumbers, potatoes, garlic, onions, and bananas at one facility, for instance, when they’re in stock — and...
New York’s elections watchdog declined to seek sanctions against the Bronx Democratic Party after New York Focus reported it
Public housing tenants are suing to block the New York City Police Department from implementing one of the biggest video surveillance expansions in the city’s history. The expansion, which was developed in secrecy under former Mayor Eric Adams until a New York Focus