NY Daily News
Rachel Gerson, MHP’s director of guardianship & health care advocacy, co-authored this op-ed on the need for New York City to fund a consumer assistance program to help people navigate Medicaid managed care.Patch
NYC Jails Action Coalition releases report on the experience of visiting Rikers entitled, ‘It makes me want to cry’: visiting Rikers IslandNY Times
Four years ago, after more than a decade of litigation and negotiation, New York State officials agreed that the system of often dismal and dangerous...Pro Publica
The judge who oversaw landmark case involving troubled homes for the mentally ill sends word to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric...
Disability Rights New York
New York State took actions which appeared to be calculated to scuttle a settlement that gives over 5,000 people with mental illness the opportunity...City Limits
Some inmates enter New York City’s correctional facilities with prior mental illness made more severe by incarceration. Others have more subtle...Village Voice
“For every single day we wait, we risk — and are — damaging the people who are sitting in those cells. How can we continue to put people’s humanity...The Wall Street Journal
“The science on this issue has not changed, and neither should the board’s commitment to rules passed in January 2015.” said Jennifer Parish,...WNYC
"In continuing to grant the department extensions, variance after variance in excluding young adults from solitary confinement, the board must...Queens Ledger
“This is not a black or white, Republican or Democratic issue,” MHP Safe Re-entry Advocate, Johnny Perez said. “This is a human issue. It’s a moral...
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