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Resources
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A Better Life—A Safer Community Helping Inmates Access Federal Benefits (Bazelon Center)
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ACCESS NYC - online pre-screening for NYC public benefits
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Applying for Public Assistance at a Job Center (Legal Aid Society)
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At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Reasonable Accomodations for Tenant Posing a "Direct Threat" to Others
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Bazelon Center: Arrested? What Happens to Your Benefits If You Go To Jail or Prison?
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Bazelon Center: Ending the Criminalization of People With Mental Illnesses
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Building Bridges: An Act to Reduce Recidivism by Improving Access to Benefits for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities Upon Release from Incarceration (Bazelon Center)
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Civil Alternatives for Disposing of Criminal Proceedings of Defendants with Mental Disabilities (New York State Defenders Association)
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Complaint re: Psychiatric Disability and Discharge Planning (Legal Aid Society)
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Consequences of Criminal Proceedings in New York State, February 2010 (The Bronx Defenders)
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Consumer Handout: Did Social Security Stop Paying Your Benefits Because You Had An Arrest Warrant? (National Senior Citizen Law Center)
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Criminal Justice Mental Health Consensus Project
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Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Resource (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
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Dept of Health - Guidelines for NYS DOH Criminal History Record Checks (CHRC) Program
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Discharge Planning Services For Inmates Who are Receiving Mental Health Treatment in a New York City Jail (Urban Justice Center, Brad H)
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Discharge Planning Services for Inmates who are Receiving Mental Health Treatment in New York City Jails (Urban Justice Center)
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Expanded Use of Criminal Records and Its Impact on Reentry (Community Legal Services)
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Fair Hearing 4366001J: Was the determination of the Agency that the Appellant is ineligible for Public Assistance and Food Stamp benefits because such individual has been found by the Agency to be fleeing to avoid prosecution or custody or conviction for a felony correct?
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Federal Benefits for People With Serious Mental Illness Who Have Been Incarcerated (Bazelon Center)
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Find a Public Defender in New York State (New York State Defenders Association)
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Find a Public Defender in Your State
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Finding the Key to Successful Transition from Jail to the Community: An Explanation of Federal Medicaid and Disability Program Rule (Bazelon Center)
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Flyer: contact Urban Justice Center with case examples
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Fowlkes v. Adamec (2d Cir 2005)
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Garnes v. Barnhart, C-02-4428 (ND Cal. Nov. 5, 2004)
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Health Care Resources Page (NYS Online Resource Center)
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How to Get and Clean Up a Rap Sheet in Your State (Reentry Net)
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How to Help: When a Person with Mental Illness Goes to Prison (Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project and the National Alliance on Mental Illness)
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How to Help: When a Person with Mental Illness is Arrested in New York State (Urban Justice Center)
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How to Win Your Fair Hearing (Legal Aid Society)
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Income Injustice: The Impact of Welfare Reform's Fleeing Felon Regulations on SSI Recipients (Kathryn Lewis)
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Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Reentry and Employment (ICARE)
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Intersection of Fair Housing Laws/ADA and Criminal Activity Bars in Federally Assisted Housing
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Keeping Medicare and Medicaid When You Work (The Kaiser Family Foundation)
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Know Your Rights: Legal Rights of Disabled Prisoners
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Manual for Representing Individuals Denied Public Housing Because of a Criminal Record (Legal Action Center)
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Massachusetts Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Disabled Tenant Under Reasonable Accommodations of the Fair Housing Act
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Massachusetts Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Disabled Tenant Under Reasonable Accommodations of the Fair Housing Act
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National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
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Navigating Medicare and Medicaid 2005 (The Kaiser Family Foundation)
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New York State Statistics Website
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NYC Partners for Families website
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NYS/NYC Mental Health-Criminal Justice Panel Report (New York State Office of Mental Health)
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OMRDD (Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities) - Criminal Process Record Check Overview
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OTDA 97 ADM-23 - State "Fleeing Felon/ Probation/Parole Violation" Policies
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Police Interactions with Individuals in Psychiatric Crisis: A Briefing Prepared for Michael A. Cardozo Corporation Counsel of the City of New York
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Policy re Applications Before Release From Incarceration - 93 INF-11 (see Question 4)
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Price v. RHA: Constitutional Due Process requires Notice of Right to Reasonable Accommodation (United States District Court, Western District of New York)
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Price v. RHA: Constitutional Due Process requires Notice of Right to Reasonable Accommodation (United States District Court, Western District of New York)
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Prisoners Rights Fact Sheets (ACLU)
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Publications on Fair Housing for People with Disabilities (Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law)
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Re-Entry and Reintegration: The Road to Public Safety Report and Recommendations of the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Proceedings
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Reasonable Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Act: Joint Statement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice
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Reasonable Accomodations for Tenant Posing a “Direct Threat” to Others (Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law)
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Report on Collateral Consequences of Non Criminal Adjudications (New York County Lawyers Association)
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Revised Public Benefits Manual (Neighborhood Legal Services)
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Seeking Waiver of a Social Security or SSI Overpayment (Neighborhood Legal Services)
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Settlement Agreement in Martinez nation-wide class action challenging SSA fleeing felon practices
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Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) - NYSDA Resources
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Social Insecurity: How the Social Security Administration's "Fugitive Felon Program" Harms Disabled,Retired and Poor Americans Without Aiding Law Enforcement (Urban Justice Center, Mental Health Project)
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Social Security Acquiescence Ruling 06-1(2) - Fowlkes v. Adamec
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Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Overpayments: A Practical Guide (2005) (Legal Services for New York City)
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State of N.Y. ex rel. Harkavy v Consilvio - 2nd Circuit Decision ruling holding that the state cannot use mental hygiene laws to confine individuals in psychiatric hospitals after prison terms end
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Stipulation of Settlement: Brad H. v. Guiliani (Urban Justice Center)
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Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Disabled Tenant Under Reasonable Accommodations of the Fair Housing Act
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The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook (Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild)
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Western New York Law Center and Empire Justice Center Online Health Care Resources Page
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Working For Your Check: A Guide To Welfare Work Rules (The Legal Aid Society)
