Ourside the lockup at Queens Criminal Court.
The city’s jails have become mental health treatment centers of last resort, writes the city’s corrections commissioner. A new task force will try to get in front of the psychological problems that put people behind bars.
A study that says a proposed city living wage law would kill 13,000 jobs based its analysis on a state subsidy program that wouldn’t actually be covered by the city measure.
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