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  • How Trump’s immigration policy could impact Binghamton, Broome CountyNovember 15, 2024
  •  Hochul’s Watching You (and so is your local PD) June 17, 2024
  • Fully Open County Jails to Visitation, December 11 2022
  • Where’s the Sheriff? In Contempt of the Supreme Court , Binghamton Bridge, October 31, 2022
  • Ten Reasons Why Frederick Akshar Should Not Be a County Sheriff, by Judy Arnold, Ruth Blizard, Rozann Greco, William Martin, October 9, 2022
  • Fears and Facts about Crime in Broome County, April 10, 2022
  • NY legislation proposes parole reforms, justice, March 21, 2021
  • Muddled bail reform unlikely to make a real difference, Albany Times-Union, June 18 2019
  • Op-Ed Broome County schools need fewer officers, more counselors May 4 2019
  • “Cuomo’s ‘Carceral Humanism’” (with Zhandarka Kurti), Jacobin, November 16, 2018
  • “Schools Don’t Need More Resource Officers,” Press & Sun Bulletin, Sept 16, 2018.  Additional references at: http://www.justtalk.blog/index.php/2018/09/16/schools-vs-police-round-two/
  • “Broome County’s Food Contract Another Bad Move” (with Rozann Greco and Sue Ruff), Press & Sun Bulletin, July 6 2018, https://www.pressconnects.com/story/opinion/2018/07/06/turn-broomes-new-food-contracts-another-bad-move/36659225/
  • “BU, city, county have same wrong priorities,” Press & Sun Bulletin, April 27, 2017, http://www.pressconnects.com/story/opinion/2017/04/27/bu-city-county-wrong-priorities/100979070/
  • “When Jail Becomes a Death Sentence,” Jacobin, March 1, 2017, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/jail-deaths-broome-county-alvin-rios-salladin-barton-upstate-new-york-prisons/
  • “Death and the Broome County jail,” Press & Sun Bulletin, January 30, 2018,
  •  “Calling for dialogue at Binghamton University” (with Joshua M. Price , Jennifer Stoever, Michael O. West and Leo Wilton), Press & Sun Bulletin, May 12, 2017,
  • “Graduating at Sing Sing and Princeton” Jacobin, October 28, 2016, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/princeton-sing-sing-college-prison-incarceration/
  • “Did SUNY Ban the Box? Or Just Move It?”  The Nation, October 25, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/article/did-suny-ban-the-box-or-just-move-it/
  • “BU, city, county have same wrong priorities,” Press & Sun Bulletin, April 27, 2017
  • “Incarceration Isn’t the Answer to Addiction,” Press & Sun-Bulletin, September 30, 2016, A8,
  • “The ‘Ferguson Effect’,” Jacobin, July 9, 2015
  • “Militarized police escalate conflicts,” op-ed, Press and Sun-Bulletin, August 28, 2014, http://www.pressconnects.com/story/opinion/2014/08/28/police-military-equipment-escalate-conflicts/14723223/
  • “Broome jail expansion is pricey boondoggle,” Press and Sun-Bulletin, January 21, 2014 (with Josh Price and Brendan McQuade)
  • “Closing prisons is no easy fix for budget woes” (with John Eason), Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) February 7, 2011, A10, and Ithaca Journal February 7, 2011
  • “State detention system wrong for upstate and at-risk youths,” Press Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton NY), November 2, 2010, 10A

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