Elaine Bartlett was a 26-year-old mother of four living in East Harlem when she was sentenced to 20-to-life for selling four ounces of cocaine to an informant. It was her first offense; the same ...

On May 8, 1973, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller signed into law what he called “the toughest antidrug program in the nation” and then congratulated himself and the legislators who stood fast “against this ...

Food is Medicine programs are one tool that health care practitioners and providers must be considering as they work to address chronic disease in America." The Rockefeller Foundation commissioned ...

The details of how the latest Rockefeller reforms will affect the state’s 175 drug courts are still up in the air, but what happens every day in Brooklyn Treatment Court might be the model. People ...

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Rockefeller drug laws in New York State. The statutes’ most severe provision requires that a judge impose a prison term of no less than 15 years to life ...

AFTER YEARS of dragging their feet, New York lawmakers agreed this month on legislation that will change the state's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Victims of the drug laws and their families have ...

The streets of our state are demonstrably safer today than they were as recently as five years ago. The dramatic reduction in violent crime in New York is, in large measure, due to the vigorous ...

NEW YORK, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- New polling data from The Rockefeller Foundation shows that more than four in five adults in the United States – across demographics, income levels, party ...