Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

08/31/2026

More than 500 people have been arrested here in Trump's second term.

08/31/2026

Monday August 31, 2026

08/24/2026

“It’s almost like the entire system is in solitary confinement … People are losing their minds, literally. Some people are committing su***de.

A New York correctional union and Republican backers are weaponizing a false narrative about solitary confinement and violence.

08/24/2026

The massive New Hampton project comes as officials point to a growing need for mental health treatment in New York’s criminal justice system.

08/17/2026

"Have I been Flocked? A question, but now also a website."

Have I been Flocked? A question, but now also a website.

08/13/2026

"Do not tell us ... there is no better way to enforce the immigration laws of this country than to have masked agents in body armor taking people, including children, during raids at immigration courts, schools, hospitals, neighborhoods and homes."

And yet that is what ICE has done for more than a year now across New York City. Their brazen enforcement efforts at Federal Plaza’s immigration court,

08/13/2026

When America’s Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, today’s technology was inconceivable. One example is artificial intelligence machines that decide, predict, and recommend.
https://nysba.org/ai-and-the-courts-new-frontiers-in-legal-writing-and-research-for-new-york-judges-and-litigators/

08/11/2026

Limited food access and package bans in New York prisons are leading to poor health.

New York's prison package ban cut off a key source of fresh produce, which advocates say is putting incarcerated people's health at risk.

08/07/2026

The presumption that DOJ lawyers act in good faith before the courts has been recently tested as judges appointed by both parties have found some DOJ lawyers to have omitted or misrepresented key facts in cases before them.

Honesty is the best policy, but the present U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to disagree.

08/07/2026

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Civil Rights Corps, a criminal justice nonprofit, and a group of law professors who challenged the constitutionality of a New York State law that keeps the work of its grievance committees secret.

A federal appeals court recently upheld a lower court ruling that found that New Yorkers have the right to access prosecutorial disciplinary proceedings and records, which are currently shrouded in secrecy.