Chris Gelardi

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Julia Rock |Chris Gelardi

— This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Thousands of New Yorkers around the state are sitting on waitlists for two state-funded mental health treatment and support programs, according to data obtained by the Legal Aid Society and reviewed by New York Focus. Some applicants wait years for voluntary long-term mental health support, even as the state has increased funding for such programs in recent years, the records show.

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Chris Gelardi

This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, investigative news site covering New York state and city politics. Sign up for their newsletter here. As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal authorities gang intelligence that could fuel the administration’s rapidly expanding, extrajudicial deportation machine.

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Chris Gelardi

The New York state prison system is abusing “emergency” authority to gut solitary confinement reforms indefinitely, a new class action lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed by the Legal Aid Society on Thursday, asks a state court to overturn the prison agency’s suspension of the reforms, details of which attorneys only recently uncovered. At issue is the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as HALT, which went into effect in 2022.

3 weeks ago | documentedny.com | Chris Gelardi |Clarissa Leon

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. The New York State Police have quietly built a database of over 5,000 alleged gang members using speculative criteria like tattoos, clothing, and associations.

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Chris Gelardi

April 23, 2025 The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang DatabaseFor 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members—and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration. Ad Policy Governor Kathy Hochul is joined by state troopers during a news briefing on state crime statistics on October 17, 2024, in Albany.