New York elected officials traveled to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. Along with Democrats, the New York Working Families Party is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid to the White House. We sit down with Jasmine Gripper, co-director of the New York Working Families Party, for more. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced two upstate prisons will close in the Fall. State Sen. Julia Salazar, Chair of the Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, joins us to discuss the decision and the conditions of prisons across the state.
Full Episode: NYWFP Endorses Kamala Harris, Upstate Prisons Closures
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Full Episode: NYWFP, Prison Closures
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- New York elected officials traveled to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention.
- Along with Democrats, the Working Families Party is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House. We sit down with Jasmine Gripper, co-director of the New York Working Families Party, for more.
- The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced two upstate prisons will close this fall. State Sen. Julia Salazar, Chair of the Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, joins us to discuss the decision and the conditions of prisons across the state.