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2013

PDF "Judge gives initial OK to bias settlement over disability claims," Reuters, May 3, 2013

PDF "Advocates speak out on brutality in jails," Amsterdam News, March 8, 2013

PDF "Sick and in solitary," The New York World, February 6, 2013

PDF "A death at Rikers spurs advocates to call for justice," Amsterdam News, February 1, 2013

PDF "4,000 Queens SSI cases to be reviewed," Queens Chronicle, January 17, 2013

PDF "Pact Calls for Review of SSI Benefit Denials," New York Law Journal, January 15, 2013

PDF "Historic Class Action Settlement Provides New Hearings," MHP Press Release, January 14, 2013

MP3 "A coalition is demanding answers in the death of Rikers Island inmate Jason Echeverria," WBAI, January 14, 2013

PDF "Bias settlement could give thousands new hearings on disability claims," Thomson Reuters News & Insight, January 11, 2013

PDF "Rejected Disability Claims in Queens May Be Reheard," NY Times, January 11, 2013

2012

PDF "Unlock The Box: The Fight Against Solitary Confinement in New York," The Nation, October 2, 2012

PDF "The Urban Justice Center's Ian Feldman Awarded 2012 Denison Ray Award ," September 13, 2012

PDF "Following Rikers Island Detainee;s Death in Solitary Confinement, Victim's Father Joins Protestors in Calling on NYC Department of Correction to End Brutal Practice," September 10, 2012

"Prisoner Rights Advocates Solitary Confinement At Critical of Rikers Island," WBAI, September 10, 2012

PDF "The NYPD's Poor Judgment With the Mentally Ill," The Village Voice, August 15, 2012

PDF "Demonstrators Protest Solitary Confinement and Brutality in New York City's Jails," Solitary Watch, July 10, 2012

PDF "Grassroots Effort Launches to Reform NYC Jails, Combat Culture of Brutality at Department of Correction," MHP Press Release, July 9, 2012

PDF "NYC Jails Action Coalition Pushes Reform," Gotham Gazette, July 9, 2012

PDF "Letter to the Editor: Solitary Confinement," New York Times, June 27, 2012

PDF "Judge Signs Order Allowing Social Security Payments," New York Law Journal, April 18, 2012

PDF "COURT RESTORES SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THOUSANDS;VICTIMS MAY RECOVER $1 BILLION IN BENEFITS," MHP Press Release, April 17, 2012

PDF "Adult Home Residents Suffer a Setback," MHP Press Release, April 10, 2012

PDF "Did The NYPD Suffocate A Mentally Ill Woman To Death While Trying To Cuff Her?," Gothamist, April 3, 2012

PDF "SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ON THE RISE AT RIKERS ," City Limits, March 27, 2012

PDF "Social Security suit progresses ," Queens Chronicle, February 16, 2012


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