Media InquiriesDavid George, Associate Director, Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP: |
“State Prisoners Punished for Wearing Masks as City Jails OK Them”
April 3, 2020: Reuven Blau, The City
“Advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to grant clemencies after first prison COVID-19 death”
April 3, 2020: Tania Savayan, The Journal News/LoHud
“Coronavirus prompts 150 correctional health experts, medical professionals to request clemencies from Gov. Cuomo”
April 2, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
AND READ THE LETTER HERE
“First New York prisoner with coronavirus dies at Sing Sing”
April 2, 2020: Andrew Denney, New York Post
“A Sing Sing inmate is the first state prisoner to die after getting the flu”
April 2, 2020: Coronavirus Updates, The New York Times (scroll down for Sing Sing piece)
“Death Camps in the Making: New York’s Prisons During a Time of Pandemic”
April 1, 2020: Frances Madeson, Counterpunch
“Death At Sing Sing Prison Spreads Coronavirus Panic Among Those Inside”
April 1, 2020: Lisa Armstrong, HuffPost
“Coalition asks governor to grant clemency to older prison inmates”
March 31, 2020: Alex Crichton, WBFO/NPR
(also appeared on WXXI News as “Coalition: Free older inmates and those vulnerable to COVID-19”)
“Grondhal: Brother fights for brother’s early prison release amid COVID-19 fears”
March 31, 2020: Paul Grondhal, Albany Times-Union
“Clemency Sought as COVID Hits State Prisons”
March 31, 2020: Adina Berliant, Jeanmarie Evelly, Sadef Ali Kully, Jarrett Murphy and Daniel Parra, City Limits
“Movement for Black Lives Releases Policy Demands in Response to COVID-19”
March 31, 2020: Breanna Edwards, Essence
“Top doctor at Rikers Island calls the jail ‘a public health disaster unfolding before our eyes'”
March 31, 2020: Meagan Flynn, Washington Post via MSN
“Possible COVID Death in in NY Prison Sparks Call for Releases”
March 30, 2020: Jack Queen, Law360
“Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison”
March 30, 2020: Mary Bassett, Eric Gonzalez and Darren Walker, The New York Times
“Exigen a Cuomo dar clemencia a miles de presos en NY en riesgo por coronavirus”
March 30, 2020: Ramon Frisneda, El Diario
“Will New York Governor Cuomo Release Thousands of Aging Prisoners Before COVID-19 Kills Them?”
March 30, 2020: Tim Murphy, TheBody
“Ante crisis de coronavirus, familiares y otros exigen liberacion de presos vulnerables”
March 30, 2020: Julio Cesar Garcia, NY1 Noticias
“Advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to put changes to bail reform on hold”
March 30, 2020: Sarah Darmanjian, News 10 Albany
“New York Prisons Called ‘Death Camps’ in the Making”
March 30, 2020: Frances Madeson, The Progressive (also appeared inPressenza International Press Agency)
“Elderly inmates are at high risk for coronavirus. Why are there so many of them in Illinois’s prisons?
March 30, 2020: Emily Hoerner and Josh Newman, Injustice Watch
“‘Jails Are Petri Dishes’: Inmates Freed as the Virus Spreads Behind Bars”
March 30, 2020: Timothy Williams, Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum, The New York Times
“Digital rallies call for release of select inmates to prevent virus spread”
March 30, 2020: Macy Egeland and Eileen Lehpalmer, News 12 Long Island
“Families of state prisoners plead with Cuomo to relieve crowded conditions and stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus”
March 30, 2020: Nathan Riley, Legalize
“NY to release up to 1,100 low-level parole violators from jails to slow coronavirus spread”
March 30, 2020: Sarah Taddeo, Record Online/Gannett New York
“Think bigger on clemencies: Coronavirus, prisons and public health”
March 28, 2020: Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Locked up: No masks, sanitizer as virus spreads behind bars”
March 28, 2020: Robin McDowell and Margie Mason, Associated Press
“How Bill Barr’s COVID-19 Prisoner Release Plan Could Favor White People”
March 28, 2020: Eli Hager, The Marshall Project
“Coronavirus behind bars: Prisoners being freed to slow spread in ‘virus vectors'”
March 28, 2020: Tim Fitzsimmons, NBC News
“Prisons and public health: Gov. Cuomo must let out thousands or many will die”
March 27, 2020: Susan Reverby, New York Daily News
“A Public Health Doctor and Head of Corrections Agree: We Must Immediately Release People From Jails and Prisons”
March 27, 2020: Brie Williams, Leann Bertsch, The Appeal
“New York to Release Up to 1,100 People Jailed on Parole Violatins, Officials Say”
March 27, 2020: Jane Wester and Ryan Tarinelli, New York Law Journal
“New York to Release 1,100 inmates being held on parole violations”
March 27, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“NY to release 1,100 parole violators as coronavirus spreads”
March 27, 2020: Brendan J. Lyons, Albany Times-Union
“Our Leaders Have the Power to Release People in Prison. Now They Must Use It.”
March 27, 2020: Rachel Barkow, The Appeal
“Activists Demand Release of Aging Prisoners as Coronavirus Spreads”
March 27, 2020: Headlines, Democracy Now!
“Elderly inmates at risk as pandemic also impacts prisons”
March 26, 2020: David Montgomery, PBS
“‘He Will Die’: Prisoners’ Family Members Are Petrified As Coronavirus Spreads”
March 26, 2020: Angelina Chapin, HuffPost
“‘Prisons are bacteria factories’; elderly most at risk”
March 26, 2020: David Montgomery, Dallas News
“How to Help Incarcerated People During COVID-19”
March 26, 2020: Jael Goldfine, Paper Magazine
“Chesa Boudin On His Incarcerated Father and the Threat of the Coronavirus in Prisons”
March 26, 2020: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“AOC urges Cuomo and de Blasio to protect NY’s elderly prisoners from coronavirus”
March 25, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“What Cuomo Hasn’t Done”
March 25, 2020: David Leonhardt, The New York Times
“COVID-19 in Rikers”
March 24, 2020: Brian Lehrer interviews Jose Saldana and Dr. Robert Cohen, WNYC
“‘It Spreads Like Wildfire’: COVID-19 Comes to New York’s Prisons”
March 24, 2020: Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker
“Advocates and Lawmakers Urge Trump Administration to Release Elderly Inmates Vulnerable to Coronavirus”
March 24, 2020: C.J Ciaramella, Reason
“The Coronavirus Is Hitting US Prisons, And Advocates Fear Sick Inmates Will Be Afraid To Get Treatment”
March 23, 2020: Salvador Hernandez, Buzzfeed
“We Are Sitting Ducks”
March 23, 2020: Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents
“Fighting the Cuomo Virus to Free Incarcerated Elders”
March 23, 2020: Susie Day, Counterpunch
“38 positive for coronavirus in NYC jails, including Rikers”
March 23, 2020: Michael Rezendes and Robin McDowell, Associated Press (the same article appeared on 3/22 with bylines Robin McDowell and Michael Balsamo)
“Advocates Demand Help for Vulnerable Prisoner, Homeless Folks”
March 23, 2020: Matt Tracy, Gay City News
“Massachusetts COVID-19 Decarceration Bill Could Protect Us All”
March 21, 2020: Jean Trounstine, digboston
“Coronavirus risk looms large for America’s elderly and sick prison population”
March 20, 2020: Hope Corrigan, Quartz
“Little Relief For Jails’ Most Vulnerable As Pandemic Grows”
March 20, 2020: Reuven Blau and Rosa Goldensohn, The City
“A Rikers Island Doctor Speaks Out to Save Her Elderly Patients From the Coronavirus”
March 20, 2020: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“Rising calls to free incarcerated New Yorkers”
March 20, 2020: Zach Williams, City & State New York
“Advocates Want Older Inmates Released Amid Pandemic”
March 19, 2020: Jamal Andress, Newsy
“If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed”
March 19, 2020: Victoria Law, Truthout
“The coronavirus: A jail or prison sentence should not be a death sentence”
March 19, 2020: Lois Ahrens, Daily Hampshire Gazette
“This Chart Shows Why The Prison Population Is So Vulnerable To COVID-19”
March 19, 2020: Weihua Li and Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
“Pressley Calls For Release of Elderly Prisoners With Underlying Conditions, Other Reforms Amid COVID-19 Outbreak”
March 19, 2020: Arjun Singh, WGBH
“Coronavirus leads some overseas prisons to release inmates; Rikers and other US prisons consider the same”
March 18, 2020: Bradford Betz, Fox News
“Clemency is needed for incarcerated New Yorkers vulnerable to coronavirus”
March 18, 2020: Jose Saldana, USA Today Network/LoHud
“Tolman and Harris: Coronavirus crisis requires this action be taken for elderly prison inmates”
March 18, 2020: Brett L. Tolman and Holly Harris, Fox News
“ACLU calls for release of prisoners at ‘heightened risk’ from virus”
March 18, 2020: WCAX (Vermont)
“NYS Legislature Passes Quarantine Sick Leave”
March 18, 2020: Karen DeWitt, WAMC
“Coronavirus has arrived at Rikers Island: Inside New York City jails, where the pandemic is about to explode”
March 18, 2020: Nick Pinto, The Intercept
“Activists Are Not Happy With New York’s Plan to Use Prison Labor to Make Hand Sanitizer”
March 17, 2020: Elly Belle, Alure
“Employee at Sing Sing state prison tests positive for coronavirus, raising fears in system”
March 17, 2020: Joseph Spector, LoHud
“We must release prisoners to lessen the spread of coronavirus”
March 17, 2020: Josiah Rich, Scott Allen and Mavis Nimoh, The Washington Post
“Coronavirus and NYS’s Prison Population”
March 17, 2020: Tim Williams interviews Jose Saldana, Capitol Pressroom/WCNY
“Will Rikers Island Free Inmates Because of the Coronavirus?”
March 17, 2020: James D. Walsh, New York Magazine
“Applauding Release of Prisoners in Ohio Due to Coronavirus Threat, ACLU Calls on Officials Nationwide to Do the Same”
March 16, 2020:Julia Conley, Common Dreams
“An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, if Inaction Continues”
March 16, 2020: Amanda Klonsky, The New York Times
“The Only Way To Protect Elderly Prisoners From Coronavirus Is To Release Them”
March 16, 2020: Jenavieve Hatch, Huff Post
“DOCCS: Visitation suspended at NYS prisons”
March 15, 2020: Robert Harding, Auburn Pub
“Visitations suspended at New York prisons”
March 14, 2020: Brendan J. Lyons, Albany Times Union
“Advocates Respond to Governor Cuomo’s Ban on Prison Visits in Wake of Coronavirus”
March 14, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison; Parole Preparation Project; VOCAL-NY; Worth Rises; Citizen Action of NY; #HALTsolitary Campaign; Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club; Press Statement
“New York has its first coronavirus deaths.”
March 14, 2020: Jon Campbell, recordonline
“New York has its first coronavirus deaths. Here are the details”
March 14, 2020: Jon Campbell, LoHud
“NY Department of Corrections suspends visits statewide until April 11”
March 14, 2020: Dean Balsamini and Julia Marsh, New York Post
“Release People From Jail to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe Behind Bars”
March 13, 2020: Jose Saldana, Komrade Z, and Nadja Guyot, Shadowproof
“Prisons and Jails Worry About Becoming Coronavirus ‘Incubators'”
March 13, 2020: Martin Kaste, NPR
“Citing Coronavirus, Advocates Call for Release of Aging and Medically Vulnerable Inmates”
March 13, 2020: Jane Wester, New York Law Journal
“Inmates Helping to Restock State’s Depleted Supply of Hand Sanitizer”
March 13, 2020: Richard Khavkine, The Chief
“Where Hand Sanitizer is Contraband: Are NY Prisons Ready for Coronavirus?”
March 12, 2020: Christopher Robbins, The Gothamist
“Calls Grow For Older Inmates, At High Risk of Coronavirus, to Be Released”
March 12, 2020: Amber Guerguerian, The Indypendent
“Activists Push For Vulnerable Prisoners To Be Released As Coronavirus Spreads”
March 11, 2020: Steve Burns, WCBS Radio
“Pressure Builds on New York Governor to Address Coronavirus Impact on Prisoners”
March 11, 2020: Bryce Covert, The Appeal
“Prisoners’ rights advocates condemn Cuomo’s use of inmate labor amid coronavirus outbreak”
March 10, 2020: Amanda Fries, Albany Times Union
“Advocates oppose inmate-made hand sanitizer program”
March 10, 2020: Corina Cappablanca, WIVB4 News
“Advocates Rally Against Inmates Making Hand Sanitizer for Low Wages”
March 10, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum News
“Inmate Advocates Urge Wage Boost for Sanitizer Makers”
March 10, 2020: Ryan Tarinelli, New York Law Journal
(Note: story follows article on New Rochelle courts)
“New York to Pay Incarcerated Workers 65 Cents an Hour to Make Hand Sanitizer to Fight Coronavirus”
March 10, 2o2o: Tamar Sarai Davis, Prism/Daily Kos
“Changing Perception, Changing the Law”
March 3, 2020: Jean Trounstine, DigBoston
“Cuomo, miserly on clemencies: Thousands of elderly New Yorkers who pose no risk are locked in state prison”
February 27, 2020: Errol Louis, New York Daily News
“Life Sentences Lock Away Too Many People and Too Much Potential”
February 26, 2020: Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal
“Is Now the Time for Parole Reform in New York?”
February 21, 2020: NY Senator Gustavo Rivera on WCBS 880 In Depth
“Justice in the Balance”
February 20, 2020: Will Astor, Rochester Beacon
“How to lower prison costs? Secretary advises medical parole”
February 20, 2020: Katie Meyer, WITF
“Let Bernie Madoff, and Many More, Out of Prison”
February 17, 2020: Colleen P. Erin, The New York Times
“Redemption is possible”
February 15, 2020: Robert Ehrenberg, Albany Times Union
“New York’s elderly prisoners are asking for a second chance”
February 14, 2020: Jean Lee, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Assembly Update with NYS Assemblyman Philip Ramos, 6th Assembly District, Featuring New Hour”
February 13, 2020: Phil Ramos interviews New Hour’s Serena Liguori and Danielle Donaphin
“Elderly prisoners could become eligible for parole hearings under new law”
February 13, 2020: Madison Czopek, Missourian
“Las leyes de libertad bajo fianza no se tocan”
February 12, 2020: David Ramirez, El Diario
“Bail reform supporters rally at state capital to protect law, end mass criminalization”
February 12, 2020: WRGB Staff, WRGB 6News Albany (text, not video)
“Sen. May takes principled stance on criminal justice reform”
February 12, 2020: Maurice Brown, Syracuse.com (letters)
“In Presidential Campaign, Progressive Democrats’ Death Penalty Stances Fall Short”
February 11, 2020: Jose Saldana, Gotham Gazette
“Elder parole law is needed to give second chances”
February 9, 2020: Donna Robinson, The Buffalo News
“Donna Robinson of RAPP on Elder Parole Bill”
January 28, 2020: Mike Baggerman, WBEN Radio
“‘Elder Parole’ bill in Albany receives criticism”
January 28, 2020: Mike Baggerman, WBEN Radio
“Democrats Should Stop Saying Some People Should Die in Prison”
January 22, 2020: Ben Miller and Daniel S. Harawa, Slate
“DSA challengers push state legislature on criminal justice reform”
January 22, 2020: Emma Whitford and David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Bill to let inmates be eligible for parole at age 55 draws concerns”
January 22, 2020: Don Lehman, Post-Star
“Senate committee to consider early release for inmates legislation today”
January 22, 2020: Sarah Mueller, Florida Politics
“Fast-Tracking Second Chance: Increasing Odds for Parole on Life Sentences”
January 16, 2020: Jacqueline Lantsman, Houston Institute/Medium
“The Next Step in Prison Reform: Release Aging Inmates?”
January 15, 2020: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Will Albany Give Older NY Prisoners A Chance At Freedom?”
January 15, 2020: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“Push to End Lifetime Prison Sentences in New York”
January 14, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum News
“Parole reform is the next criminal justice frontier”
January 14, 2020: Gustavo Rivera, New York Daily News
“Pursuing More Justice: Elder Parole is Good for Communities Across New York”
January 13, 2020: Carmen De La Rosa, Gotham Gazette
“Quaker Org Joins mobilization Against Death By Incarceration”
January 13, 2020: American Friends Service Committee
“Most States Saw Prison Reforms in 2019, But Incarceration Rates Remain High”
January 11, 2020: Victoria Law, Truthout
“Capitol Pressroom: On Friday, Governor Cuomo announced he had used his clemency powers to either pardon or commute the sentences of eleven New Yorkers. We heard from advocates on how the process works and the reforms they would like to see”
January 8, 2020: Tim Williams, WNYC
“Gov. Cuomo grants clemency to abused upstate woman convicted of murder as advocates call for more action”
January 3, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Advocates Slam Gov. Cuomo For Granting Handful of Clemencies After Not Issuing A Single Clemency to New Yorkers in Prison in 2019”
January 3, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project (press statement)
“What to look for in criminal justice reform in New York in 2020”
January 1, 2020: Noah Goldberg and David Brand, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Thomas Kearney talking about Release Aging People in Prison”
December 31, 2019: Hudson Mohawk Magazine, MediaSanctuary on Soundcloud
“Interviews With Five Aging NY State Prisoners Hoping for Clemency: ‘Who I Am Now Is Not Who I Was'”
December 24, 2019: Stephanie Chukwuma, Trone Dowd, Jeffery Harrell, Brenda Léon, Hannah Miller, Rosemary Misdary, Rachel Rippetoe, Maria Robins-Somerville, Sean Sanders, and Annie Todd, The Gothamist
“Ailing Inmate Pins Clemency Hopes on Cuomo”
December 23, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“Clemency advocates call on Cuomo to release long-serving inmates”
December 21, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“They’ve been through New York’s parole system. That’s why they want to change it.”
December 20, 2019: Noah Goldberg, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“New Yorkers Freed From Prison Urge Cuomo To Set More Free—Before It’s Too Late”
December 20, 2019: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“‘Invest in us, invest in the bus’: Children of the incarcerated call for the return of prison visitation program”
December 20, 2019: Paul Frangipane, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Freedom: Letter to the Editor, “Re: ‘Tis the Season for Clemency'”
December 20, 2019: Elizabeth Rapaport, New York Daily News
“Issues to Watch in the 2020 Legislative Session in Albany”
December 18, 2019: Samar Khurshid, Gotham Gazette
“Tis the season for clemency: Gov. Cuomo should let more New Yorkers out of prison now”
December 17, 2019: Steven Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Elected Officials, Prison Reform Advocates, Host Community Forum”
December 11, 2019: Parker E. Quinlan, Mott Haven Herald
“Louisiana’s life without parole sentencing the nation’s highest—and some say that should change”
December 7, 2019: Lea Skene, The Advocate
“Advocacy leaders push for prison reform in the Bronx”
December 3, 2019: News 12 the Bronx
“NYC legal defense groups want additional criminal justice reforms from Albany”
December 2, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Parole reform aims to put a stop to a ‘culture of punishment’
November 27, 2019: Noah Goldberg, The Brooklyn Eagle
“Rally for Parole Reform”
November 26, 2019: Lewis Dodley, NY1
“NYC advocates push for parole reform in the new year”
November 26, 2019: Brittany Kriegstein and Chelsia Rose Marcus, The Daily News
“How Old Is Too Old for Prison?”
November 26, 2019: Edward McClelland, Chicago Politics & City Life
“Prepping for Parole”
November 25, 2019: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“Prison health-care costs are higher than ever in Texas. Many point to an aging prison population.”
November 25, 2019: Davis Rich, The Texas Tribune
“We need a compassionate release program for older inmates”
November 25, 2019: Harley Farrell (letter to the editor), Attelboro, MA Sun-Chronicle
“Yonkers Town Hall Meeting Addresses Mass Incarceration”
November 22-29, 2019: Yonkers Rising (pp 1 and 8)
“Norwood Man, Imprisoned for 38 Years, Becomes the Face for Early Release”
November 21, 2019: Michael Turay, Norwood News
“Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project Call for Fair & Timely Parole Act on One Year Anniversary of Mujahid Farid’s Death”
November 20, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project
“What does death by incarceration look like in Pennsylvania? These elderly, disabled men housed in a state prison.”
November 20, 2019: Joshua Vaughn, The Appeal
“On the Count with RAPP and Parole Preparation Project”
November 9, 2019: Jose Saldana and Anthony Dixon talk to Steven (Humble) Mangual and Andre (Imani) Ward (audio; interview of Jose and Anthony starts close to a half hour into the show)
“Close Attica—and Build No New Prisons”
November 7, 2019: Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“Why is Maryland keeping an 85-year-old man and four other octogenarians in prison?”
November 5, 2019: Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun
“Life without parole needs to go”
November 4, 2019: Lois Ahrens, Guest Columnist, Daily Hampshire Gazette
“Life Without Parole Sentences Rob Taxpayers and Pervert Justice”
November 1, 2019: Linn Washington, Counterpunch
“Push Begins For Release of Older Prison Inmates”
October 24, 2019: Nick Reisman, State of Politics/Spectrum News
“Brooklyn DA Gonzalez pushes for law to review and reduce long-term sentences”
October 23, 2019: Erin Durkin, Politico
“Florida’s Longest-Serving Inmates: They Get Older, Sicker, and More Well-Behaved”
October 17, 2019: Deirdre Funcheon, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
“Baker administration tying up medical parole program”
October 17, 2019: Margaret Monsell, Commonwealth
“11 Reasons Why De Blasio’s $11 Billion Jails Plan Will Fail”
October 15, 2019: Ngozi Alston, Marlene Nava Ramos, and Brittany Williams, City Limits
“Fighting and Dying for Dignity in Prison”
October 3, 2019: Claire Stottlemeyer, The Gotham Gazette
“Elder parole is overdue”
September 20, 2019: Jose Saldana, Albany Times-Union
“Convicted of a Deadly Crime as a Teen, He Worked for Decades to Get a Second Chance at Life”
September 16, 2019: Aaron Morrison, The Appeal
“You Say You Want A Revolution: A Prison Letter To Yoko Ono”
September 12, 2019: Susie Day, Gay City News
“The graying of America’s prisons: ‘When is enough enough?'”
September 4, 2019: Eileen Rivers, USA Today
“Libertad o muerte: el drama de los presos mayores en Nueva York”
03 de Septiembre 2019: Edwin Martinez, El Diario
“Death by incarceration is punishment with no room for redemption”
September 3, 2019: Stanley Bellamy, Queens Daily Eagle
“More New Yorkers serving life in prison are from Brooklyn than anywhere else in the city. Reformers are calling for relief”
August 29, 2019: Noah Goldberg, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“The Growing Push for Politicians to #VisitAPrison”
August 29, 2019: Stephanie Wykstra, The Progressive
“Aging in Prison: The Forgotten Plight of Women Behind Bars”
August 28, 2019: Cassie M. Chew, The Crime Report
“Depraved Indifference and Second Look Sentencing”
August 27, 2019: Steven Zeidman, The Gotham Gazette
“Elders in Prison:” Jose Saldana and Donna Robinson of RAPP on Capitol Pressroom
August 26, 2019: Tim Williams, Capitol Pressroom (audio)
“Longest-serving inmate’s death spurs movement for elder parole”
August 23, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Activists Demand Parole Reform As They Mark Passing of NY’s Longest-Serving Woman Prisoner”
August 23, 2019: Democracy Now! WATCH THE SEGMENT HERE
“Death Of NY’s Longest-Serving Female Prisoner Intensifies Calls For ‘Elder Parole'”
August 22, 2019: Victoria Law, Gothamist
“Aging, harmless and locked away: New York needs to parole far more elderly prisoners”
August 22, 2019: Errol Louis, The Daily News
“Protestors shout ‘Valerie Gaiter’ outside legislative office building”
August 21, 2019: Amanda Steen, The Daily News
“Rally held to push for bill giving elderly inmates a chance for parole”
August 21, 2019: Jim Dolan, WABC-TV EyeWitnessNews
“Advocates demand parole reform after death of NY’s longest-serving female inmate; daughter of her elderly victim says she belonged behind bars”
August 21, 2019: Catherina Gionio and Stephen Rex Brown, The Daily News
“Advocates for Aging Prisoners Look to Force a Debate on Parole”
August 20, 2019: Roshan Abraham, City Limits
“New York’s longest-serving female inmate died of cancer—she only got treatment in the last month of her life”
August 16, 2019: Stephen Rex Brown, The Daily News
See the print version here
“Longest-serving woman inmate’s death makes her case a cause”
August 16, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“A Better Return for Older Prisoners”
August 14, 2019: Gaby Galvin, US News & World Report
“Releasing elderly prison inmates could save Illinois a fortune—without endangering the public”
August 12, 2019: Jennifer Soble and Bill Ryan, Chicago Sun-Times
“Sensationalist Tale of An Elderly Killer Feeds False Narrative”
August 9, 2019: Adam H. Johnson, The Appeal
“Gov. Cuomo’s Clemency Out of Grasp for Many Behind Bars”
August 6, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“For New York’s Police Union, Any Accountability for Eric Garner’s Death is Too Much”
August 5, 2019: Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal
“The Troubled Business of Prisoner Health Care”
August 2, 2019: Crime and Justice News, The Crime Report
“Every D.A. in America Should Open a Sentence Review Unit”
August 2, 2019: James Forman Jr. and Sarah Lustbader, The New York Times
“America Has a Health-Care Crisis—In Prisons”
August, 2019: Alan Greenblatt, Governing
“Booker’s right: Paying $60,000 to jail one geriatric inmate deserves a ‘second look'”
July 28, 2019: Editorial Board, New Jersey Star-Ledger
“Success of ‘Unger’ inmates shows wisdom of not keeping elders in prison”
July 23, 2019: Stanley Mitchell, The Baltimore Sun
“Maryland should release more elderly inmates”
July 18, 2019: Editorial Board, The Baltimore Sun
“ACI population gets older and more expensive, in step with national trend”
July 17, 2019: Walt Buteau, 12WPRI EyeWitness News
“What Should We Do about Our Aging Prison Population?”
July 17, 2019: Hope Reese, JSTOR Daily
“Special Public Health Services for the Elderly, Prisoners and Refugees”
July 15, 2019: Dr. Ebun Ebuniomo, InHomelandSecurity
“Cory Booker aims to give aging prisoners ‘a second look'”
July 14, 2019: Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News
“The state Legislature’s criminal justice reform failures”
July 8, 2019: Steven Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Abolish the Death Penalty? Letter to the Editor”
June 23, 2019: RAPP letter, The New York Times (responding to “When We Kill,” Nicholas Kristof)
“Statement from RAPP and Parole Preparation Project: Parole Justice Takes Steps Forward but More is Urgently Needed”
June 21, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project, Media Advisory
“Prisoners Locked Out of State Criminal Justice Overhaul”
June 10, 2019: Reuven Blau and Josefa Velasquez, The City
“Who’s Afraid of Patty Butterfield? She’s 73 Years Old. Oregon’s Governor Hasn’t Set Her Free.”
June 5, 2019: Katie Shepherd, Willamette Week
NYS Parole Board Must Be Fully Staffed and Fair
June 5, 2019: Video, Release Aging People in Prison, Parole Preparation Project, Citizen Action
“Advocates and State Lawmakers Make Final Push to Fully Staff New York State Parole Board”
June 5, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign press advisory
“Parole reform movement gains traction statewide after years of advocacy”
May 31, 2019: Allen Arthur, Queens Daily Eagle
“After NECIR story, feds investigate treatment of elderly prisoners”
May 29, 2019: New England Center for Investigative Reporting
“Mechanicville mass shooter seeks parole for 9th time; Request comes as state debates parole for elderly prisoners”
May 25, 2019: Steve Hughes, Albany Times Union
“Another Voice: Parole system needs to acknowledge changed lives”
May 19, 2019: Donna Robinson, The Buffalo News
“Look at parole for older inmates”
May 19, 2019: Serena Liguori, Newsday
“Advocates and Legislators Rally for State Parole Reforms in Wake of Republicans’ Call for More Prison Time”
May 14, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP, Press Release
“NY Parole Justice Advocacy Day in Albany”
May 14, 2019: PBS New York Now (WMHT)
“Passing Elder Parole is a moral imperative”
May 10, 2019: Della Johnson and Claire DeRoche, Queens Daily Eagle
“Parole justice moves forward in New York despite police union publicity stunt”
May 9, 2019: Naomi Jaffe, BayView National Black Newspaper
“‘Elder Parole’ Consideration for Older Inmates in New York State”
May 8, 2019: Jeannie McBride, Western New York Spectrum News NY1
“Senate considers reforms to parole option for elderly inmates”
May 7, 2019: SEMOTimes, The Missouri Times
“Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project Respond to NYS Senate Republicans’ ‘Victims’ Justice Agenda'”
May 1, 2019: RAPPCampaign.com; ParolePrepNY.org
“What Second Chance? The Uncertain Future of Post-Prison Health Care”
May 1, 2019: Cassie M. Chew, The Crime Report
“Prison Reformers Call For a Fully-Staffed, Diverse Parole Board. Will Gov. Cuomo Listen?”
May 1, 2019: Renée Feltz, The Indypendent
“A bill to increase parole for ‘elder’ inmates now has the Brooklyn D.A.’s support”
April 29, 2019: Noah Goldberg, The Brooklyn Eagle
“City’s top legal defense groups call on lawmakers to pass criminal justice reforms”
April 28, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Legislation would offer parole opportunity to aging prisoners”
April 25, 209: Melanie Lekocevic, Hudson Valley 360/Columbia-Greene Media
“Proposed bill would allow parole hearing for certain inmates”
April 25, 2019: Ayla Ferrone, WETM18
“Republican lawmakers furious over parole of Judith Clark and a new bill that could free some older prisoners”
April 25, 2019: Brendan Roney, The Legislative Gazette
“Assemblyman criticizes Democratic legislation proposing early release for older inmates”
April 25, 2019: Paul Kirby, Daily Freeman
“Proposal would make some inmates eligible for parole at 55”
April 23, 2019: Bill Spadea, Chasing News
“Legislation Would Parole Certain Inmates at 55 if Eligible”
April 22, 2019: Associated Press, WIBX950AM
“Why Philly’s Reformist Prosecutor Finally Supports Letting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Go Forward”
April 20, 2019: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“On the Count: Criminal Justice Reform”
April 20, 2019: On the Count, WBAI-FM
“Parole Law and Reform: New York City Bar Association Podcast”
April 19, 2019: Gina Mitchell interviews Jose Saldana, Michelle Lewin, and Steve Zeidman. New York City Bar
“After release of Judith Clark, NY lawmakers push bill to allow release of older inmates”
April 19, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Weprin: Judith Clark is a reminder that rehabilitation is achievable”
April 19, 2019: David Weprin, Queens Daily Eagle
“Proposed Legislation Would Grant Older Inmates Parole Hearings After 55”
April 19, 2019: Mike Sugerman, WCBS 880
“Parole isn’t working in New York State: Our urgent duty is to properly staff the parole board”
April 19, 2019: Michelle Lewin, New York Daily News
“Legislation would parole certain inmates at 55 if eligible”
April 19, 2019: AP News
“New York Legislation Would Parole Certain Inmates At 55”
April 19, 2019: Jonathan Dienst, NBC 4New York
“Parole reform gives older Californians, including David and Louise Turpin, hope for release”
April 19, 2019: Sam Metz, Palm Springs Desert Sun
“Judith Clark’s release highlights issue of elder parole”
April 18, 2019: David Lombardo, Albany Times-Union
“Oregon lawmakers seek options for growing number of older prison inmates”
April 18, 2019: Claire Withycombe, Oregon Gazette Times
(This story ran in numerous Oregon newspapers)
“Bill Allowing ‘Elder Parole’ Consideration for Older Inmates Gains Momentum in NY”
April 12, 2019: Dan M. Clark, New York Law Journal
“To end mass incarceration, New York needs a fully staffed parole board”
April 10, 2019: Luis Sepulveda, City and State
“Press Release: NYS Senate Crime Committee Passes Elder Parole”
April 9, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
“Editorial: Parole bill would save state money, right old wrongs”
April 6, 2019: Editorial Board, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“On the Count: Parole Justice”
April 6, 2019: Steve “Humble” Mangual interviews RAPP and Parole Preparation Project, WBAI-FM
“‘There Are No More Excuses:’: Protesters Demand That Cuomo Staff the Parole Board”
April 5, 2019: Aviva Stahl, The Gothamist
“Remember what parole is for: People who commit terrible crimes can rehabilitate themselves”
April 4, 2019: Errol Louis, NY Daily News
“Activists call on Cuomo to fully staff state Parole Board”
April 3, 2019: David Brand, Queens Eagle
“Rehabilitated inmate deserves to reenter community”
April 3, 2019: Elaine Lord, Albany Times-Union
“Consider parole for elder convicts”
March 30, 2019: Brad Hoylman and Jose Saldana, Albany Times-Union
“The NYPD Union’s War Against Parole Reform”
March 29, 2019: Natasha Lennard, The Nation
“Caucus Calls to Fill Parole Board Vacancies”
March 27, 2019: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News Albany
“Documentary Asks Audience to Consider: Is Rehabilitation A Right?”
March 22, 2019: Dana Vollmer, Illiniois Public Media/NPR
“Reduce prison populations by reducing life sentences”
March 21, 2019: Daniel S. Nagin, The Washington Post (Guest Post)
“Don’t Overlook First Step Act Pilot Programs”
March 17, 2019: Addy Schmitt and Ian Herbert, Law 360
“From chapel to hospice, Rockview visit opens window on prison life”
March 14, 2019: Pamela Salokangas, Centre Daily Times (PA)
“How Pa.’s state Senate plans to reform criminal justice this session”
March 13, 2019: Elizabeth Hardison, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
“Bill to Allow Parole for Medically Frail Inmates Adopted by MI House”
March 12, 2019: Rick Pluta, WKAR
“An aging prison population is straining Pa.’s Corrections budget. Could medical parole be the answer?”
February 28, 2019: Elizabeth Hardison, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
“Elderly, Infirm Funding Units”
February 27, 2019: Harold Taylor, Anderson Valley Advertiser
“Police Unions Fight to Rescind Parole for Former Black Panther”
February 26, 2019: Victoria Law, The Appeal
“Giving prisoners serving life sentences a chance for release is a good idea”
February 20, 2019: Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
“DOC says aging inmates, mental health are driving up health care costs”
February 13, 2019: Drew Wilson, Florida Politics
“The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years”
February 12, 2019: German Lopez, Vox
“Queens Senators Back ‘Justice Roadmap’ to Reform Court System”
February 7, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Pressing Albany to Address Flaws in New York’s Parole System”
January 30, 2019: Jarrett Murphy, City Limits
“Prisoners’ Rights Advocates Say Major Changes to Parole System Needed”
January 29, 2019: Ryan Whelan, Spectrum News
“Lawmakers scrutinize parole for older inmates”
January 29, 2019: Joe Mahoney, The Oneonta Daily Star
This article also appeared in the Niagara-Gazette on January 30, 2019 as “NY prisons boss pressed by lawmakers on parole for aging inmates”
“It’s Time for Parole Reform in New York; Here are the First Three Steps”
January 29, 2019: Luis Sepulveda and & David Weprin, Gotham Gazette
“Activists push reforms as lawmakers discuss public safety”
January 29, 2019: Rachel Silberstein, Albany Times Union
“It’s Time for Compassionate Release”
January 23, 2019: Vijay Das and David A. Lowe, Truthout
“N.Y. parole commissioners travel the state to conduct video hearings and rarely step inside prisons, Daily News analysis shows”
January 20, 2019: Stephen Rex Brown, Trevor Boyer, and Reuven Blau, NY Daily News
“Micheail Ward’s 84-Year Sentence Sparks Debate About Elderly Inmates”
January 15, 2019: Jim Williams, CBS Chicago
“What’s Inside (And Left Out) Of NY’s Historic Voting Reform Package”
January 14, 2019: Emma Whitford, The Gothamist
“Inmates seek bill allowing for chance of parole or death”
January 12, 2019: Pat Pratt, Columbia Daily Tribune
“Criminal justice reform groups to launch ‘days of action’ to press for sweeping changes”
January 9, 2019: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Criminal justice groups slam de Blasio’s push for tougher bail restrictions”
January 7, 2019: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Why Aren’t Democratic Governors Pardoning More Prisoners?”
January 4, 2019: Matt Ford, The New Republic
“On criminal justice reform, Virginia should move past Congress’ ‘First Step'”
January 2, 2019: J. Daryl Byler, Virginia Post-Dispatch
“Officer’s alleged assault on 86-year-old inmate shines light on graying prison population”
December 29, 2018: Boston Herald
“Elderly inmates on the rise in Massachusetts, nationally”
December 29, 2018: Jonathan Ng, Boston Herald
“Prison advocates push Cuomo to commute sentences of domestic violence survivors and elderly prisoners”
December 24, 2018: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Research analysis: Identifying elderly inmates’ healthcare needs”
December 19, 2018: C1 Staff, CorrectionsOne
“Bill Aims to Improve Compassionate Release of Prisoners”
December 19, 2018: Maui Now
“Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration”
December 21, 2018: John Pfaff, America, the Jesuit Review
“Michigan spending one-fifth of its general fund budget on prisoners”
December 19, 2018: Kristen Gordon Shamus, Detroit Free Press
“200 elderly lifers got out of prison en masse. Here’s what happened next.”
December 12, 2018: Samantha Melamed, The Inquirer
(this story also ran as “Study of 200 released elderly lifers reveals 3 percent recidivism rate” in CorrectionsOne)
“Elderly in Prison: A Curated Collection of Links”
December 11, 2018: The Marshall Project
“Criminal Justice Advocates Seek Reforms Next Session”
December 7, 2018: Liz Benjamin with RAPP, Capital Tonight/Spectrum News
“Incarcerated NYers Ask Cuomo to Help Them Come Home for the Holidays”
December 7, 2018: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“Several Roads Lead to Decarceration, All of Which Should Be Taken”
December 6, 2018: Steven Zeidman, The Gotham Gazette
“Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died”
December 5, 2018: Laura Whitehorn, Prison Legal News
“The graying of Pennsylvania’s prisons”
December 5, 2018: Karen Lee and Tomiko Shine interviewed by ACLU-PA on soundclooud
“Forum on Parole System Reform”
December 3, 2018: Bronxnet
“Study: Prison Release of Older People is Safe, Saves Money”
November 29, 2018: Trimmel Gomes, Public News Service
“Mujahid Farid, Ex-Prisoner Who Advocated for Older Inmates, Dies”
November 28, 2018: Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times
“Senate Democrats Take Aim At Parole Board”
November 28, 2018: Morning Memo, State of Politics
“A break for the ailing”
November 27, 2018: Editorial Board, Daily Press
“Prison advocates call for massive parole board reforms”
November 27, 2018: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Mujahid Farid, Who Fought For Elderly Prisoner Releases, Dies at 69”
November 21, 2018: Headlines, Democracy Now!
“‘Paroling Grandpa’: Study Finds 3% Recidivism Rate Among Elderly Ex-Inmates”
November 19, 2018: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Nonprofit points to Maryland Unger cases as proof oldest prisoners should be set free”
November 15, 2018: Tim Prudente, The Baltimore Sun
“Criminal justice activists press New York state lawmakers to enact bold reforms”
November 14, 2018: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“EXCLUSIVE: Public defender groups calling for major criminal justice reforms by state”
November 14, 2018: Kenneth Lovett, New York Daily News
“Could Releasing More Prisoners Help Lower Costs?”
November 13, 2018: Mallory Noe-Payne, Radio WVTF
“Letter: Look at whole picture of prison system”
November 10, 2018: Suzanne Varner, Del Norte Triplicate
“End Mass Imprisonment”
November 4, 2018: Steven Zeidman, The New York Times (letter)
“New York State’s elderly prison boom: An update”
November 1, 2018: Maddy Troilo, Prison Policy Initiative
“Should prosecutors and survivors have a voice in shortening long sentences?
October 25, 2018: Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative
“As Prison Populations Age, the Fight Over Parole Heats Up”
October 23, 2018: Brian Gordon, The Ink NYC
“I-Team: The costs of housing aging inmates”
October 23, 2018: Amy Phillips, 22WWLP.com (print and video)
“Parolees deserve justice”
October 20, 2018: Nora Carroll and Dave George, Times Union
“Finding Meaning After Decades Behind Bars”
October 16, 2018: Elizabeth Gaynes, The New York Times (letter)
“South Dakota board to hear first ‘compassionate parole’ case”
October 15, 2018: James Nord, Associated Press/Star Tribune
“Missouri violated rights of inmates convicted as juveniles who are serving life without parole, judge says”
October 14, 2018: Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Campaign for Prison Reform ‘The Heat Inside'”
October 13, 2018: Racheeda Bell, The Florida-Georgia Star
“Letter: Consider parole for suffering inmates”
October 9, 2018: Barbara Zeller, MD, Times Union
“‘Blind man denied a cane’: Louisiana State Penitentiary medical care lawsuit heads to trial”
October 8, 2018: Joe Gyan, Jr., The Advocate
“Advocates Encourage Voting Rights for NY Parolees”
October 7, 2018: Stacy M. Brown, Amsterdam News
“The Prison ‘Old-Timers’ Who Gave Me Life”
October 6, 2018: Darnell Epps, The New York Times
“Fear-mongering Versus Reality in New York Parole”
October 5, 2018: Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“What elderly inmates—like Bill Cosby—have to look forward to in prison”
October 3, 2018: Alessandra Malta, MarketWatch
“Senate Parole Board Hearings, Day One Recap”
October 2, 2018: The Morning Memo, Spectrum News
“Senate Democrats say Republican-led parole hearings are a ploy”
October 1, 2018: Rosa Goldensohn, Politico
“The cynical, misguided pushback on New York’s parole board”
October 1, 2018: Elizabeth Gaynes, New York Daily News
“Senate GOP reviews New York’s parole process”
October 1, 2018: David Lombardo, Albany Times-Union
“State senator impeding Parole Board reforms”
September 29, 2018: Eve Rosahn, Letter, Albany Times-Union
“Cuomo must reshape state’s Parole Board”
September 29, 2018: David George and Laura Whitehorn, Opinion, Albany Times-Union
“Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole”
September 16, 2018: Jean Trounstine, Truthout
“Medical neglect is killing U.S. prisoners”
September 7, 2018: Estaban Guevara, Liberation
“Legislators Explore Causes, Consequences of Older Inmates”
September 4, 2018: Amanda Essex, National Conference of State Legislatures
“Cuomo Ordered an Investigation of Racial Bias in Prisons. Nearly 2 Years Later, It’s Not Done.”
September 4, 2018: Tyler Pager, The New York Times
“Here are the criminal justice issues Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon should debate”
August 28, 2018: Emma Whitford, The Appeal
“Parole Board Issues”
August 27, 2018: Susan Arbetter interviews Jose Saldana and Dave George of RAPP; Tim Williams, Capitol Tonight
“Ohio’s aging prison population is adding costs for their care”
August 26, 2018: Laura Bischoff, Springfield News-Sun
“In the Spotlight: The Importance of Who Sits on Parole Boards”
August 23, 2018: Sarah Lustbader and Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal
“LI correctional facility carves out a separate space for older inmates”
August 23, 2018: Michael O’Keeffe, Newsday
“Primarily New York: Parole”
August 23, 2018: Brian Lehrer, WNYC
“The case for releasing violent offenders early”
August 21, 2018: Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
“Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP on Law and Disorder Radio”
August 20, 2018: Jose Saldana and Dave George interviewed by Heidi Boghosian, Law and Disorder Radio
“With overcrowding prison populations, Idaho lawmakers consider reforms”
August 16, 2018: News, Inlander
“Inside Perspectives on a Staffing Crisis A Report Says is Preventing Parole Justice in New York”
August 14, 2018: Errol Louis, Inside City Hall/NY1
“Prisoner Advocates Say Parole Board is Understaffed and Overwhelmed”
August 14, 2018: Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC News
“Reforming the State Parole Board”
August 14, 2018: Capital Tonight Staff, Spectrum News Capital Region
“Cuomo’s parole board is woefully short-staffed and includes two political hacks, advocates say”
August 14, 2018: Reuven Blau and Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News
“Police Unions’ Opposition to Prison Reform is About More Than Jobs—It’s About Racism”
August 14, 2018: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“Joe James, cancer-stricken killer of correction officer, died in prison at age 70; was justice really served?”
August 12, 2018: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Violent offenders, often victims themselves, need more compassion and less punishment”
August 9, 2018: Bruce Western, USA Today
“Gov. Walker: ‘No value’ to visiting state prisons”
August 8, 2018: Mitch Reynolds, 1410WIZM News Talk
“I want the Board of Pardons to release my brother’s killer from prison. Why won’t they listen?”
August 7, 2018: Mitzi Birli Foulke, Philadelphia Inquirer
“Will Governor Cuomo Give Roy Bolus a Second Chance?”
August 6, 2018: Max Rivlin-Nadler, Gothamist
“Cuomo’s Parole Board Creates A ‘System of Hopelessness,’ Advocates Say”
August 7, 2018: Victoria Law, Gothamist
“Just Treatment: Exploring Cancer Care for Prisoners”
August 2, 2018: Erik Ness, Cure
“Tempering the Cost of Aging, Dying in Prison With the Demands of Justice”
August 1, 2018: Chris Burrell and Jenifer McKim, WGBH Radio
“When Parole Boards Trump the Supreme Court”
July 30, 2018: Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
“That Night, It Never Ends: A Story of Life With or Without Parole”
June 28, 2018: J. Malcolm Garcia, Guernica
“Pass Prison Reform, Bronx Leaders to Gov. Cuomo”
July 27, 2018: Bronx Voice
“Records of Illinois parole board show just how rarely inmates win release”
July 27, 2018: Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang, Injustice Watch
“Orange is the New Black – Healthcare for Prisoners”
July 27, 2018: 24-7PressRelease, Digital Journal
“The Message Trump’s Pardons Are Sending Further Amplifies Sytemic Injustice. Here’s Why”
July 27, 2018: Yazmine Nichols, Blavity
“Ending mass incarceration requires bold leadership”
July 26, 2018: Cynthia Nixon, The Amsterdam News
“Proyectos de ley garantizaria justicia a comunidades minoritarias”
July 26, 2018: Telemundo 47
“Aging prisoners present unique challenges”
July 18, 2018: The Oklahoman Editorial Board, NewsOK
“Michigan Man Resentenced in Juvenile Lifer Case”
July 11, 2017: AP; U.S. News and World Report
“NJ may start setting more prisoners free for health reasons”
July 8, 2018: Dino Flammia, New Jersey 101.5
“Wisconsin’s prisons are a mess, which Governor Walker has made worse. But we can fix this.”
July 6, 2018: Emily Mills, Journal Sentinel
“Democrats running for governor call for slashing prison population”
July 5, 2018: Patrick Marley, Journal Sentinal
“State-By-State Analysis Shows Confusing & Problematic Rules And Delays Make Compassionate Release A Rarity”
June 29, 2018: Taylor Walker, Witness LA
“What life is like for the U.S.’s increasingly elderly prison populations”
June 27, 2018: Kenneth Dickerman and Lucy Nicholson, The Washington Post
“Why Do We Keep Our Aging Prisoners Behind Bars?”
June 26, 2018: Marc Schindler and Jeremy Kittredge, The Crime Report
“For Justice and Decarceration, Enact Second-Look Sentencing”
June 26, 2018: Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“Prison Is No Place For the Elderly—Even Paul Manafort”
June 22, 2018: Evie Litwock, The Forward
“Addressing the Challenges Posed by an Aging Prison Population”
June 22, 2018: Dr. Michael Pittaro, In Public Safety
“Cuomo the Merciless”
June 20, 2018: Victoria Law, Gothamist
“Caring for California’s aging prisoners”
June 19, 2018: Sharon Bernstein (photos: Lucy Nicholson), Reuters The Wider Image
“Inside the prison hospice where no inmate dies alone”
June 19, 2018: Jane Ross, Reuters
“Overtime pay for prison nurses costs millions of tax dollars”
June 18, 2018: AP article in The Virginian-Pilot
“Seniors call for parole reform for elderly prisoners”
June 5, 2018: Trevor Boyer, New York Daily News
“House takes first steps toward prison reform/Incarcerated and elderly”
May 30, 2018: Rob Holmes, World
“By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50”
May 29, 2018: Michelle Chen, The Nation
“Alternative needed for elderly, sick Mass. inmates”
May 27, 2018: Editorial Board, The Boston Globe
“Should Older Prisoners Get a Pass Just Because They’re Old?”
May 25, 2018: Robin Seaton Jefferson, Forbes
“FIRST STEP Act Represents Last Hope for Sick and Elderly in Prison”
May 23, 2018: Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar, The Daily Caller
“Is the ‘First Step Act’ real reform?
May 22, 2018: Justin George, The Marshall Project
“State wants to show compassion to ill inmates—and save money”
May 21, 2018: Jenifer McKim, The Boston Globe
This article also ran as “With aging prison population, Massachusetts looks to possible cost-saving, compassionate fix,” New England Center for Investigative Reporting
“Call for State to Address Crisis of Aging in Prisons”
May 17, 2018: Jarrett Murphy, City Limits
“Prison reformers call for action as New York’s population of elderly inmates increases”
May 17, 2018: Kristin Toussaint, Metro US
“The Rising Cost of Incarcerating the Elderly”
May 17, 2018: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Keeping older inmates locked up is costing New York State taxpayers a fortune, report shows”
May 16, 2018: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Report: Aging prison population will cost NY more”
May 16, 2018: The Associated Press, The Seattle Times
“Where Both Patients and Caregivers Are Prisoners”
May 16, 2018: Suleika Jaquad, The New York Times Magazine (The Health Issue)
“David George and Prison Abolition”
May 14, 2018: T. Jackson, Medium
“Juvenile Offenders in New York Find Parole a Distant Hope”
May 14, 2018: Katie Rose Quandt, The Village Voice
“Changing Parole Boards Is One Step Toward Weakening Mass Incarceration”
May 7, 2018: David George, TruthOut
“167 Illinois prisoners serving life sentences for crimes committed as juveniles”
May 6, 2018: Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang, Injustice Watch/The Chicago Sun-Times
“State Senate backs parole reform after Herman Bell’s release”
May 1, 2018: Glenn Blain, The Daily News
“How the aging prison population challenges correctional facilities”
May 1, 2018: Dr. Michael Pittaro, corrections.com
“If Bill Cosby goes to jail, he’ll be one of many older Americans in the prison system”
April 28, 2018: Alessandro Malito, MarketWatch
“South Carolina must build on its criminal justice reform success”
April 26, 2018 Marc Hyden, The Charleston Post and Courier
“Federal Prison Populations Are Booming – A Look At Who’s Behind Bars”
April 25, 2018: Phil Pruitt and Chance Seales, kivitv.com
“Louisiana considers giving more old prisoners a chance at parole”
April 24, 2018: Julia O’Donoghue, The Times Picayune
“Herman Bell and the Future of NYS Parole”
April 23, 2018: Susie Day, Gay City News
“Release programs for sick and elderly prisoners could save millions. But states rarely use them.”
April 18, 2018: Gina Barton, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Is justice best served by never-ending punishment?”
April 16, 2018: Michael B. Mushlin and Bennett L. Gershman, The Albany Times-Union (if you can’t read it on the web, click here for PDF)
“Stop the PBA’s attempt to reverse justice for Herman Bell”
April 12, 2018: NYS Assembly Member Charles Barron, The Amsterdam News
Note: In response to this letter, the NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus issued a statement supporting the Board of Parole’s decision
“Our Parole System is Broken. How Do We Fix It?”
April 12, 2018: Cindy Rodriguez interviews Victoria Law and Katie Rose Quandt, Midday on WNYC
“Hard-Won Parole Board Reforms Under Attack in New York”
April 6, 2018: Kanya D’Almeida, Rewire.News
“Judge Suspends Release of Herman Bell, Elderly Black Panther Jailed 45 Years, Amid Police Pressure”(Part One)
April 6, 2018: Amy Goodman interviews RAPP’s Jose Saldana and Attorney Robert Boyle on Democracy Now!
“Judge Halts Release of Herman Bell Despite NY’s Attempts to Parole More Low-Risk, Elderly Prisoners” (Part Two)
April 6, 2018: Amy Goodman interviews Jose Saldana and Robert Boyle on Democracy Now! (continuation)
“Did Parole Board Get it Right?”
April 2, 2018: RAPP Associate Director Dave George, New York Daily News
“Herman Bell Granted Parole After 45 Years”
April 2, 2018: RAPP’s Jose Saldana and Laura Whitehorn on Law & Disorder Radio
“Herman Bell is on the Verge of Freedom, But Politics Might Stand in his Way”
March 30, 2018: Renée Feltz, The Indypendent
“Why the Backlash to Former Black Panther Herman Bell’s Parole Risks Setting a Dangerous Precedent”
March 29, 2018: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“Dying in Prison”
March 28, 2018: Betsy Kaplan, Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf, WNPR
“Senate bill could give inmates sentenced to life in prison a second chance”
March 27, 2018: Matt Heckel, JET 24 Action News (Erie, PA)
“The Meaning of Parole”
March 27, 2018: Barbara Treen, The New York Times
“Can Police Opposition Overturn Parole Reform?”
March 27, 2018: Victoria Law, In Justice Today
“Herman Bell Gains Parole as Cuomo, De Blasio Lose Ethics”
March 27, 2018: Susie Day, Gay City News
“Prison, Parole, and Justice”
March 26, 2018: Liz Benjamin, Capital Tonight (interview with Senator Kevin Parker and RAPP’s Laura Whitehorn)
“New York Forgets Its Juvenile Lifers”
March 24, 2018: The Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Why should we keep murderers in prison until they die?”
March 20, 2018: Bruce Western and Bernard E. Harcourt, The New York Daily News
“Don’t Let Parole Become a Meaningless Concept”
March 18, 2018: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Some Passion for Compassion?” (Update on the GRACE Act)
March 15, 2018: Thomas L. Root, Legal Information Services Associates (LISA)
“Outdated Ideas About Violent Crime Hurt Victims and Trap Offenders”
March 12, 2018: F.T. Green, City Limits
“House plan would allow sick prisoners to transfer to specialized medical facilities”
March 9, 2018: Chris Galford, The Peninsula
“Proposed, cutting-edge law would improve prison, mental health options”
March 9, 2018: Sharon Stone, Fenton, MI Tri-County Times
“Matthew T. Mangino: Few prisoners benefit from compassionate release”
March 9, 2018: Matthew T. Mangino, Sturgis Journal
“New York plan puts spotlight on graying of U. S. prison population”
March 8, 2018: Mark Miller, Reuters
“The False Hope of Parole”
March 8, 2018: Katie Rose Quandt, The Outline
“Frail, Old, and Dying, but Their Only Way Out of Prison Is a Coffin”
March 7, 2018: Christie Thompson, The New York Times
This story also appeared as:
“Old, Sick and Dying in Shackles”
March 7, 2018: Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project
“House ok’s bill to release ‘medically frail’ inmates”
March 7, 2018: Jonathan Oosting, Detroit News Lansing Bureau
“Glendening, former Md. governor, says he was wrong to deny ‘lifers’ early release”
March 7, 2018: Rachel Chason and Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
“NY gov Cuomo proposes changes to state parole system”
March 5, 2018: AP, WCAX
“Too Old to Be Executed? Supreme Court Considers an Aging Death Row”
March 5, 2018: Adam Liptak, The New York Times
“Life in Louisiana: People aging in prison seek a second chance”
March 5, 2018: Elizabeth Johnson, Southern Poverty Law Center News
“DOC Meeting met with protests”
March 2, 2018: WMTV
“Ruchell Magee, longest held political prisoner in the world, heads to parole hearing”
March 2, 2018: Ruchell Cinque Magee, San Francisco BayView
“Legislation to Improve Compassionate Prison Release Process”
February 28, 2018: Big Island Now
“California’s top court strikes down 50-year sentences for juveniles”
February 28, 2018: Moura Nolan, The Los Angeles Times
“The Cruelty of Executing the Sick and Elderly”
February 27, 2018: Matt Ford, The New Republic
“Florida is afraid of its prison system. Here’s what lawmakers want to do about it.”
February 18, 2018: Mary Ellen Klas and Emily L. Mahoney, The Miami Herald
“Last Mile, Second Chances: Senior Incarceration” (Part 1 and Part 2)
February 18, 2018: Topeka K. Sam, SiriusXM – interview with Donna Hylton and Mujahid Farid
“81 Federal Prisoners Have Died While Waiting for the Government to Decide if They Were Sick Enough to Go Home”
February 13, 2018: Mike Riggs, Reason
“The Problem With Parole”
February 12, 2018: The Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Plan to release sick and aging prisoners”
February 7 2018: Berkeley Brean, WHEC
“Report highlights suggestions for Florida prison reform”
February 1, 2018: Tom Urban, WMFE
“How mass incarceration harms U.S. health, in 5 charts”
February 1, 2018: Emily Nagisa Keehn and J. Wesley Boyd, Salon
“Bill Tracker: Creating parole for elderly and infirm”
February 1, 2018: Joshua Vaughn, The Sentinel
“The Law of Parole: Stop Punishing Good Behavior”
January 30, 2018: David Lenefsky, New York Law Journal
“Elderly Prisoners Passed Over for Parole”
January 30, 3018: Sandy Hausman, WVTF
“Ten inmates cost Nebraska taxpayers $2.4 million in medical costs last year”
January 30, 2018: Andrew Ozaki, KETV Omaha
“TJ Donovan: If you build it, you gotta fill it”
January 22, 2018: Attorney General TJ Donovan, Vermont Biz
“Why I Am Not a Recidivist”
January 22, 2018: Jeremiah Bourgeois, The Crime Report
“Record number of inmates died in Florida prisons last year. And they died younger than past years.”
January 21, 2018: Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald (reprinted in Tampa Bay Times)
“Florida prisoners are laying it down”
January 21, 2018: Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, SF BayView
“Berks judge: Criminal justice system needs fixing”
January 19, 2018: Dawn Wivell, WFMZ News
“Cuomo’s money-saving mercy: parole for old, sick inmates”
January 18, 2018: Editorial Board, New York Post
“Cuomo looks to free old, sick inmates in bid to save money”
January 17, 2018: Carl Campanile, New York Post
“Missouri Offenders Help Their Peers Come to Terms with Death”
January 10, 2018: Jake Cookson, Madison Fleck, Kat Jennings, Aviva Okeson-Haberman, KBIA
“Cuomo eyes bail reform, other criminal justice changes in 2018”
January 3, 2018: Robert Harding, Auburn Citizen (blog)
“With Most Older Inmates Facing Homelessness Upon Release, Dromm Passes Legislation Aimed to Bring Them Help”
December 26, 2017: Christian Murray, Jackson Heights Post
“Aging inmates: Correctional Service of Canada has strategy in the works”
December 19, 2017: Lauren Krugel, National Post/The Canadian Press
“Dromm, RAPP Campaign Hail Passage of CARE Act”
December 19, 2017: New York City Council
“Our Prison Population is Getting Older and Older”
December 11, 2017: Michelle Chen, The Nation
“On the Count: Parole and Elders Update”
December 9, 2017: Alejo Rodriguez on WBAI.org (click here to hear the entire show)
“Pressure Builds on Bureau of Prisons to Release Elderly and Sick Inmates”
December 8, 2017: Mike Riggs, Reason
“Dozens of inmates may be released by new interpretation of old policy”
December 8, 2017: Jeremy Lazarus, Richmond Free Press
“Senators push for criminal justice reform”
December 8, 2017: Gray Rohrer, Orlando Sentinel
“Governors, think big on clemency”
November 29, 2017: Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News/Opinion
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign/RAPP on Law & Disorder
November 20, 2017: Mujahid Farid and Dave George interviewed by Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith, Listen here
“Parole board changes 3-strikes stance after Pilot investigation, could free more than 200 inmates”
November 25, 2017: Tim Eberly, The Virginian-Pilot
“Past opinions provide perspective” (see item #2, “Tough on budgets”)
November 14, 2017: The Spokesman-Review
“Indiana ranks near bottom among states in health spending for prisoners”
November 13, 2017: John Russell, Indianapolis Business Journal
“The Ungers: Righting a miscarriage of justice”
November 12, 2017: Ted Koppel, CBS News
“A Vermont inmate’s untreated cancer seen as ‘torture'”
November 12, 2017: Dave Gram, VT Digger
“Execution Reinstated for Stroke-Addled Man on Death Row”
November 6, 2017: Barbara Leonard, Courthouse News
“Aging inmates add to prison costs”
November 4, 2017: Joe Mahoney, Press Republican/CNHI
“When Prisons Become Nursing Homes”
November, 2017: Mike Riggs, Reason
“The Moral Problem of Life-Without-Parole Sentences”
October 26, 2017: Brandon L. Garrett, Time
“As I See It: Medical Parole: Safe for communities, beneficial for taxpayers”
October 23, 2017: Dr. Julia Randall, Alexander Pomerantz and Constance Fontanet, the Telegraph
“Pew Study Calls for Better Monitoring of Prison Health Care”
October 19, 2017: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Collaborating Across the Walls: A Community Approach to Parole Justice”
October 14, 2017: Michelle Lewin and Nora Carroll, CUNY Law Review
“Top things you may have missed about policing this week”
October 14, 2017: USA Today
“Director says prison system in crisis”
October 11, 2017: Michelle Charles, Stillwater NewsPress
“Jerry Brown Signs Criminal Justice Reforms, Eases Prison Terms”
October 11, 2017: Marisa Lagos, KQED News
“Aging prisoners left to arbitrary process to win release”
October 2, 2017: Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang, Injustice Watch
“US Parole Activists Aim to Overhaul a Failing System”
September 30, 2017: Jean Trounstine, Truthout
“Board of Parole Adopts New Parole Release Regulation”
September 28, 2017: NY State Defenders Association, News Picks
“Aging Prisoners Receive Support from DC Locals”
September 29, 2017: Rhys Baker, Truth Machine
RAPP on Univision: “Conoce la fundacion que ayuda a los personas que cumplen largas condenas en la carcel a reintegrarse con la sociedad”
September 28, 2017: univision noticias
“More people than ever are dying in prison. Their caregivers? Other inmates.”
September 27, 2017: Samantha Melamed, The Philadelphia Inquirer/philly.com
“Calif. officials to consider whether age should determine release”
September 24, 2017: Don Thompson, Associated Press
“The Beating of Herman Bell”
September 14, 2017: dequi kioni-sadiki, The Amsterdam News
“Prisoners sentenced to life without parole as teens are now being freed”
September 7, 2017: Dennis Owens, abc27.com
“The Obama administration’s plan to deal with elderly prisoners isn’t working. Can it be fixed?”
September 5, 2017: Keith Humphreys, The Washington Post
“Why So Few Violent Offenders Are Let Out on Parole: A Q&A with Georgetown University professor Marc Morjé Howard on parole boards’ incentive to keep inmates in jail”
August 29, 2017: Maura Ewing, The Atlantic
“Parole Board ignores the capacity for change”
August 26, 2017: Barbara Hanson Treen, Albany Times-Union
(note: a slightly edited version of this article appeared first on the RAPPCampaign.com homepage)
“Oklahoma inmates sue Gov. Fallin, parole board over unsafe conditions”
August 24, 2017: Ali Meyer, Oklahoma’s News Channel 4
“The Practical Case for Parole for Violent Offenders”
August 8, 2017: Marc Morjé Howard, The New York Times
“Geriatric Parole Should Be Considered in Louisiana”
August 3, 2017: Elain Ellerbe, Right on Crime
“Why does the government want to keep elderly prisoners locked up on the taxpayer’s dime?
August 3, 2017: Bonnie Kristian, Rare
“Senators push federal prisons to expand compassionate release”
August 3, 2017: Lydia Wheeler, thehill.com
“Parole for young lifers inconsistent across US”
August 1, 2017: Sharon Cohen and Adam Geller, The Associated Press
“What Life is Like After a Life Sentence”
July/August 2017: Jessica Michaels, Mother Jones
“Congress Wants to Know Why the BOP Won’t Let Elderly Prisoners Go Home to Die”
July 28, 2017: Mike Riggs, Reason
“New York Now Considers Youth as a Factor for Inmates’ Parole”
July 21, 2017: The Associated Press
“Texas should stop spending billions to incarcerate so many people for life”
July 20, 2017: Ashley Nellis and Elizabeth Henneke, Tribtalk (Texas Tribune)
“Rikers May Close. So Should Attica.”
July 19, 2017: Steven Zeidman, The Gothamist
“‘Release Aging People in Prison’ Comes to Harrisburg”
July 18, 2017: Christopher Clymer Kurtz, The Takeaway, WMRA
“55 Years Behind Bars”
July 17, 2017: Jessica Pishko, Slate
“What Statistics Can’t Explain About Life on Parole”
July 17, 2017: Shaila Dewan, The New York Times
“The Reckoning Over Young Prisoners Serving Life Without Parole”
July 14, 2017: Matt Ford, The Atlantic
“Arizona State Prison Inmate: ‘We Are Not Being Treated As Human Beings”
July 14, 2017: Jimmie Jenkins, KJZZ
“It’s Time to Overhaul America’s Broken Probation and Parole Systems”
July 13, 2017: Topeka K. Sam, Open Society Foundation Voices
“Mass Incarceration: Prisoners of Time”
July 13, 2017: Ted Gest, The Crime Report
“Law change helps older inmate get parole”
July 9, 2017: Jimmie E. Gates, The Clarion-Ledger
“Florida agrees to make prisons more accessible for inmates with disabilities”
July 8, 2017: Elizabeth Koh, The Miami Herald
“For a few Louisiana lifers, a new chance at parole”
July 6, 2017: Julia O’Donoghue, The Times-Picayune
“Lawmakers Fail to Fix New York’s Broken, Stingy Parole System”
July 5, 2017: Victoria Law, The Village Voice
“Report details Department of Corrections population, budget, and operational crisis”
June 28, 2017: Heide Brandes, Red Dirt Report
“Corrections Chief: Oklahoma Lucky to Avoid Major Prison Riot”
June 27, 2017: Associated Press, U.S. News
RAPP on On the Count • Dave George & Mujahid Farid discuss changes to the parole board (audio)
June 24, 2017: Steve “Humble” Mangual, WBAI-FM
“Solutions remain elusive as elderly prisoners grow in number”
June 24, 2017: Miranda Moore, The Missourian
“Here’s how Louisiana parole will change under criminal justice reform”
June 23, 2017: Julia O’Donoghue, NOLA.com/The Times Picayune
“Activists want to limit solitary confinement, change parole board”
June 13, 2017: Rick Karlin, Albany TimesUnion
“Pennsylvania spends $20 million annually to keep juvenile lifers in prison”
June 13, 2017: Nicole Brambila, Reading Eagle
“Supreme Court weighs in on opportunities for teens sentenced to life in prison”
June 12, 2017: Ryan Lovelace, The Washington Examiner
“Aging Alone: Uncovering the Risk of Solitary Confinement for People Over 45”
June 12, 2017: Lucius Couloute, Solitary Watch
“For a growing share of Louisiana’s inmates, only chance for release lies with the governor—or the grave”
June 11, 2017: Bryan Stole, The Advocate
“Cuomo parole board nominees headed to Senate”
June 9, 2017: Nick Niedzwiadek, Politico New York
“Exposing the New York State Parole Board”
June 8, 2017: Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition, The Amsterdam News
“Lawmakers find compromise on sentencing juveniles to life without parole”
June 7, 2017: Rebekah Allen, The Advocate
“The Supreme Court Said His Prison Sentence Was Unconstitutional. He’s Still Behind Bars.”
June 6, 2017: Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
“New York’s Parole System is ‘Broken,’ But Cuomo Can Help Fix It”
June 5, 2017: Victoria Law, the Village Voice
“With new sentence, Philly ‘juvenile lifer’ could gain freedom after nearly 40 years”
June 5, 2017: Aaron Moselle, Newsworks
“Letter to the Editor: Allow senior lifers to petition for parole review”
May 26, 2017: James Inge, The Reporter
“Oklahoma House OKs bill on parole for decrepit inmates”
May 24, 2017: Randy Ellis, The Oklahoman
“Facing old age behind bars: Photos illustrate aging inmates’ challenges”
May 22, 2017: Vincent Lim, USC News
“How to cut corrections”
May 19, 2017: Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio
“Bill allowing release of elderly prisoners goes to governor”
May 18, 2017: Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun
“After 50 years in prison, a second second chance”
May 18, 2017: Neal Rubin, The Detroit News
“Advocates want inmates eligible for parole who are no longer a risk to society released”
May 12, 2017: Nick Perreault, ABC News 10
“Formerly Incarcerated Call for Parole Reform” (video)
May 11, 2017: Capital Tonight staff, Spectrum News
“N.Y. must lift punitive practices of state’s parole board”
May 9, 2017: Mujahid Farid, Commentary, Times Union
“Aging Prisoners and the Law of Parole” (Audio)
May 8, 2017: RAPP on Law & Disorder Radio
“From Primary Care To Hospice: Treating Aging Inmates and Ex-Offenders”
May 8, 2017: Jeff Tyson and Lucy Nalpathanchil, WNPR
“Poll: Time spent in prison increases fears about retirement”
May 4, 2017: Maria Ines Zamudio, Associated Press
“Missouri House shoots down attempt to give elderly lifers chance at parole”
May 3, 2017: Austin Huguelet, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Police officer’s killer sues New York State over parole reversal”
April 28, 2017: Phil Fairbanks, Buffalo News
“Op-Ed: Parole Reform Needed in New Jersey”
April 26, 2017: Roseanne Scotti, NJ Spotlight
“Connecticut ‘model’ nursing home for paroled inmates to get federal funds”
April 26, 2017: Adam Wisnieski, New Haven Register
“Virginia Questions Whether to Release Older Prisoners”
April 24, 2017: Peter Dujardin, The Daily Press
“EDITORIAL: Bill would allow the release of some elderly prisoners”
April 22, 2017: Editorial board, Las Vegas Review-Journal
“New York’s Increase in Elderly Prisoners Sparks Debate on Parole”
April 21, 2017: Sarah Gibson, Uptown Radio (audio and transcript)
“California’s death row turning into home for seniors”
April 21, 2017: Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee
“In February, 51 Parole Denials, Zero Grants”
April 19, 2017: Harvey Yoder, Harvspot
“How the Bureau of Prisons locked down ‘compassionate release'”
April 18, 2017: Mary Price, Learn Liberty
“Tulsa World editorial: State considers special parole docket for aging prisoners”
April 14, 2017: World’s editorial writers, Tulsa World
“Health care falls short for aging inmates—BOP seeks better data”
April 14, 2017: Christopher Zoukis, Blogcritics Magazine
“Jails for the Sick and Elderly”
April 13, 2017: Gretchen Schuldt, Urban Milwaukee
“Are prison medical costs too expensive?”
April 11, 2017: Gary York, CorrectionsOne.com
“Increase in Older Inmates Challenges NY Prison System”
April 7, 2017: Office of the State Comptroller, Lansing Star
“Bill would allow elderly life without parole inmates a hearing on release”
April 7, 2017: Jason Taylor, Missourinet
“Inmates are dying to get out of Louisiana prisons. Time to change?”
April 7, 2017: Tim Morris, The NOLA Times-Picayune
“New York prisons see jump in older inmates”
April 6, 2017: Joe Mahoney, Press Republican
“When a man goes to prison, his children’s health suffers, too, study finds”
April 6, 2017: Max Blau, Stat
“Report: New York’s prison inmates getting older, health care costs rising”
April 5, 2017: Robert Harding, The Auburn Citizen
“Statement from A.G. Schneiderman on Comptroller Dinapoli’s ‘New York State’s Aging Prison Population’ Report”
April 4, 2017: Office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
“[NYS Comptroller] DiNapoli: Increase in Older Inmates Challenges New York’s Prison System”
April 4, 2017: News from the Office of the State Comptroller
“Angola is not only a prison, but a very expensive nursing home”
April 4, 2017: Mark Schindler and Barry Holman, The NOLA Times-Picayune
“Freed juvenile lifer finds emotional maze out of prison”
April 4, 2017: Neal Rubin, The Detroit News
“‘Geriatric parole’ ought to be an option in Louisiana: Editorial”
April 2, 2017: The Times-Picayune Editorial Board
“After Murder, A Second Chance”
April 1, 2017: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Florida can reduce prison population”
March 29, 2017: Raymer Maguire and Scott McCoy, Miami Herald op-ed
“Two Tulsa moms who sold drugs likely to die in prison on life-without-parole sentences”
March 27, 2017: Ginnie Graham, Tulsa World
“Appeals Court Hears Juvenile Lifer Meadows’ Case: Pros. Kym Worthy Objected to Release After 47 Years”
March 24, 2017: Diane Bukowski, Voice of Detroit
“How long should Louisiana keep old, ill criminals in prison?”
March 22, 2017: Julia O’Donoghue, The Times-Picayune
“Vermont Inmate No. 144711 Is a 90-Year-Old Veteran”
March 22, 2017: Mark Davis, Seven Days
“Federal prisons look to improve health care for aging population”
March 20, 2017: Evan Fallor, Fedscoop
“Ill, elderly prisoners cost Fla. taxpayers more than $200M a year”
March 15, 2017: Dave Elias, NBC2
“Throwing Away the Key”
March 8, 2017: Jeff Proctor, Santa Fe Reporter
“What to do when aging prisoners are released?”
March 4, 2017: Claire Levy, The Denver Post
“Running Out of Time?”
March 2, 2017: Shavonne Robbins as told to Lisa Riordan Seville, The Marshall Project
“The Ford Report: Life Sentences are Slow Death Behind the Walls”
February 27, 2017: Glen Ford, The Real News and Black Agenda Report
“RAPP/Release Aging People in Prison Fights for the Rights of Older Inmates”
February 21, 2017: BK Stories, BRIC TV (video)
“Muncy state prison’s lady lifers talk of redemption”
February 16, 2017: Helen Ubinas, Philadelphia Inquirer
“This summer, O.J. Simpson is up for parole. How good are his chances of getting out of prison?”
February 14, 2017: Michael McCann and Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated
“Maryland should make parole a meaningful part of sentencing again”
February 13, 2017: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, The Washington Post
“Aging sex offenders have nowhere to go, Iowa prison director says”
February 13, 2017: Erin Jordan, The Gazette
“Everything You Think You Know About Mass Incarceration is Wrong”
February 9, 2017: Eli Hager and Bill Keller, The Marshall Project
“What we get wrong about mass imprisonment in America”
February 8, 2017: Keith Humphreys, The Washington Post
“Life Sentences Are Slow Death Behind the Walls”
February 7, 2017: Kim Brown, The Real News
“Beyond the Bars of Hopelessness: How We Can Revive Parole”
February 4, 2017: Jean Trounstine, Truthout
“Bill Fixes Costly Elderly Prisoners Problem”
February 4, 2017: Nancy Smith, Sunshine State News
“Medical costs growing for Oklahoma’s aging prisoners”
January 28, 2017: Janelle Stecklein, The Pryor Creek, Oklahoma Times
“Four Sound Ways to Reduce Incarceration”
January 27, 2017: Harvey Yoder, Harvspot
“Reuniting an Aging Prison Population With Their Communities”
January 27, 2017: Marie Bonner interviews Dr. Tina Maschi, APA Journals Dialogue
“Texas: For Elderly Inmates, There’s More Than One Way to Die on Death Row”
January 24, 2017: Joy Diaz, KUT.org
“I am my brother’s keeper”
January 20, 2017: Steven Frasier, guest columnist, Fort Madison Daily Democrat
“Get governors out of parole decisions”
January 20, 2017: Editorial, The Baltimore Sun
“Children Sentenced to Life: A Struggle for the N.Y. Board of Parole” (Read as PDF)
January 12, 2017: Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Avery P. Gilbert, and Christopher Seeds, New York Law Journal
“Politics & Prejudices: Prison and the mentally ill”
January 11, 2017: Jack Lessenberry, Detroit Metro Times
“Feds OK Nursing Home for Infirm, Elderly Parolees”
January 9, 2017: Katti Gray, The Crime Report
“Pennsylvania’s oldest female inmate—in prison for a 1971 Society Hill murder—dies at age 91”
January 6, 2017: Tommy Rowan, The Inquirer
“Why Keep the Old and Sick Behind Bars?”
January 3, 2017: The Editorial Board, The New York Times
“‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’: Texas judge orders count of heat-related prison deaths”
December 30, 2016: RT360
“Sick inmates costing St. Joseph County more in 2016”
December 29, 2016: Suzanne Spencer, WSBT22 (Indiana)
“The Case for Clemency”
December 28, 2016: Erroll Lewis, Inside City Hall, NY1 Online (with Hawk Newsome, Alan Roskoff, and Kathryn Erbe; 10-minutes video)
“Reducing Prison population only way to save significant cash”
December 28, 2016: Mike Vasilinda, Capitol News Service (FL)
“New study shows Oklahoma prisons among the most dangerous”
December 28, 2016: Sean Murphy, Associated Press/The Daily Progress
“At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence”
December 20, 2016: Katie Rose Quandt & James Ridgeway, In These Times
“More Prisoners Die of Old Age Behind Bars”
December 15, 2016: Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News
“Parole Reform Groups Say Proposed New Rules Don’t Go Far Enough”
December 13, 2016: Joel Stashenko, New York Law Journal
“Parole recommended for aging prisoners”
December 12, 2016: Jimmie E. Gates, The Clarion Ledger
“Prosecutors ignore Supreme Court call to give juvenile lifers a new sentence, says ACLU”
December 12, 2016: Ryan Grimes, Michigan Radio (text and audio)
“It’s Time for President Obama to Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier”
December 9, 2016: Martin Garbus, The Nation
“New York’s Parole Problem” (audio)
December 9, 2016: The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC
“President Obama’s Last Chance to Show Mercy”
December 6, 2016: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“New York photographer points lens at aging Maine inmates”
December 6, 2016: Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News
“Governor Cuomo Orders Investigation of Racial Bias in New York State Prison System,” with comment by RAPP’s Mujahid Farid
December 5, 2016: Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip, Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times
“For Blacks Facing Parole in New York State, Signs of a Broken System”
December 4, 2016: Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times
“Missouri seeks way to cut cost of burying prisoners”
November 27, 2016: Kurt Erickson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Retirement Age: Elderly inmate wants to retire from prison job”
November 26, 2016: Frank Difiore, The Malone Telegram
“Cuomo’s Commitment to Clemency Tested in 3 Murder Cases”
November 23, 2016: Jim Dwyer, The New York Times
“Editorial: Compassion for Sal diMasi—and for other inmates”
November 22, 2016:The Metro-West Daily News
“Unfit for Incarceration: Taking Stock of Punishment’s Inhumanity”
November 21, 2016: Ken Strutin, New York Law Journal
“A Story of Racial Bias, the Absence of Mercy, and a Death in Prison”
November 21, 2016: Equal Justice Initiative
“NY Parole Board Regulations Should Focus Primarily on Risk and Needs Assessments”
November 18, 2016: Eddie Conway/Rattling the Bars, The Real News (video)
“America’s Aging—and Mentally At-Risk—Prisoners”
November 7, 2016: Katti Gray, The Crime Report
“Older Women Leaving Prison ‘Less Likely to Return to Crime'”
November 3, 2016: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Home from Prison After 36 Years”
November 1, 2016: Mark Vigil, LA Progressive
“Hospital bills add up with Nebraska’s aging prison populations”
November 1, 2016: Brian Mastre, WPWT News
“Older adults more likely to be imprisoned, data show”
October 31, 2016: Keith Humphreys, The Washington Post
“Pennsylvania rally demands end to ‘death by incarceration'”
October 30, 2016: Joseph Piette, Workers World
“[Man convicted of murder], 79, who has been in prison since the age of 16 REFUSES parole offer because he’s been behind bars ‘long enough’ and just wants to be released outright”
October 29, 2016: Ariel Zilber, dailymail.com
“Juvenile lifer, 79, rejects deal for parole. ‘His view is, he’s been in long enough.'”
October 28, 2016: Samantha Melamed, the Philadelphia Inquirer
“Debate: Should Older, Sick Prisoners Be Released for Compassionate Reasons?” (audio)
October 28, 2016: National Public Radio
“Merciless End…” (article on John MacKenzie’s death)
October 28, 2016: Joe Goldsteain, The New York Times
“Death By Another Name”
October 23, 2016: Kenneth E. Hartman, The Marshall Project
“Three prison reform ideas drawing bipartisan support”
October 19, 2016: Bill McGraw, Bridge Magazine
“‘I’m no threat’ – will Obama pardon one of the world’s longest-serving political prisoners?”
October 16, 2016: Ed Pilkington, the Guardian
“Cuomo’s scant use of clemency short-circuits justice”
October 6, 2016: Laura Whitehorn, The Journal News (lohud.com opinion)
“‘The System Abuses Us By Locking Us up Forever’: Aging Survivors Behind Bars”
October 4, 2016: Victoria Law, Truthout
“D.C.’s Broken Parole System”
September 30, 2016: Scott Rodd, Washington City Paper
“Release Aging People in Prison”
September 19, 2016: Troy Griffith of Politics on My Mind interviews Mujahid Farid (audio)
“Real prison reform must take long look at life sentences”
September 15, 2016: Ashley Nelllis, thehill.com
“The Parole System is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It?”
September 10, 2016: Rebecca McCray, TakePart
“False Hope and a Needless Death Behind Bars”
September 6, 2016: Jesse Wegman, The New York Times
“Juvenile Lifers Dying in Prison”
September 4, 2016: Diane Bukowski, Voice of Detroit
“Jailing Old Folks Makes No Sense”
August 30, 2016: Geraldine Downey and Frances Négron-Muntaner, The New York Times
“Michigan prosecutors defying U.S. Supreme Court on ‘juvenile lifers'”
August 26, 2016: Ted Roelofs, Bridge Magazine
“In Memory of John MacKenzie: RAPP on On the Count”
August 20, 2016: WBAI-FM
“Judge: Courts can’t ‘pass off’ lifer decisions to parole board”
August 19, 2016: Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer/philly.com
“Genocide! State, S.A.D.O. Subject Michigan Juvenile Lifers to More ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment'”
August 19, 2016: Diane Bukowski, Voice of Detroit
“Parole board accused of violating settlement with life settlements”
August 18, 2016: Bob Egelko, SFGate
“Wilfred Dacier has earned parole; why isn’t he out?”
August 17, 2016: Jean Trounstine, Lowell Sun
“NY to keep past victim statements for parole board”
August 16, 2016: WBNG News
“Denied Parole 10 Times, John MacKenzie Found Dead in Cell After 41 Years in Prison”
August 15, 2016: Michael Smith and Heidi Boghosian interview Kathy Manley on Law and Disorder Radio, WBAI (audio)
“Doing Double Time: Chronic Diseases a Chronic Problem in Prisons”
August 13, 2016: Jessica Firger, Newsweek
“Part 2: Calls Grow for NY Gov Cuomo to Reform Parole Board That Denies Eligible Prisoners”
August 11, 2016: Web Exclusive, democracynow.org
“A Haunting Look at the Inmates Who Grow Old in Prison”
August 10, 2016: Jessica Earnshaw, National Geographic
“Aging Prisoner’s Suicide Roils Parole Debate”
August 10, 2016: Renée Feltz, The Indypendent
“After Being Denied Parole 10 Times, Elderly Prisoner Allegedly Commits Suicide in Upstate Prison”
August 10, 2016: Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and Renée Feltz, Democracy Now and democracynow.org
“Suicide of 70-Year-Old John MacKenzie After Tenth Parole Denial Illustrates Broken Parole System”
August 9, 2016: Victoria Law, The Village Voice
“John MacKenzie: Parole Justice on Capital Tonight”
August 8, 2016: Liz Benjamin, Capital Tonight, Time Warner Cable News, Albany
“Elderly and locked up: Stresses of recidivism”
August 7, 2016: Carolyn Guniss, Compton Herald (reprinted from the Miami Times)
“New York’s Parole System in Need of Repair”
August 1, 2016: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP, Prison Legal News
“This County in Michigan Has the Most Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences in the US”
July 29, 2016: C.J. Clamarella, Reason.com
“Aging People in Prison Face Continuing Denial of Compassionate Release”
July 26, 2016: Victoria Law, Truthout
“Prosecutor: No sentencing break for Michigan’s oldest juvenile lifer”
July 23, 2016: Associated Press
“The aging prison population”
July 18, 2016: Alex Hegenbarth, Liberal Democratic Voice (UK)
“Black, old and locked up”
July 13, 2016: Carolyn Guniss, The Miami Times
“HIV Advocates Turn to Parole Reform, Seeking Release of Aging Prisoners”
July 12, 2016: Victoria Law, TheBody.com
“‘Death Came Every Week:’ How Prisoners Overcame Early HIV/AIDS Stigma Through Community Education”
July 12, 2016: Victoria Law, TheBody.com
“Boomers behind bars”
July 8, 2016: Joseph A. Slobodzian, The Inquirer
“Spike in geriatric inmate population costs Ohio millions”
July 7, 2016: John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer
“Ohio’s prison hospice offers dignity to dying felons,”
July 7, 2016: John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer
“On the Count”
July 2, 2016: Mujahid Farid, René Valdez, Donna Hylton, Steven Humble Mangual talk RAPP, WBAI 99.5 FM (audio)
“If the Risk is Low, Let Them Go”
June 29, 2016: Renee Feltz, the Indypendent
“The Prisoners at Guantanamo Are Getting Old and So Is the Medical Equipment”
June 22, 2016: John Knefel, Inverse
“Aging, Sick and Incarcerated: The Need for Compassionate Release”
June 18, 2016: Victoria Law, Truthout
“Elderly, disabled inmates at Pack Unit included in ‘cruel and unusual’ heat case”
June 15, 2016: Gabrielle Banks, chron.com
“A Challenge to New York’s Broken Parole Board”
June 13, 2016: the Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Lesbian Inmate Moved to Prison Near Erie”
June 9, 2016: Tim Cwiek, Philadelphia Gay News
“Maine Voices: Alternative confinement should be expanded for aging, ailing prisoners”
June 6, 2016: Irving Faunce, Portland Press Herald
“Sentencing schemes result in longer sentences for aging offenders”
June 4, 2016: Matthew Mangino, Morton Times-News
“Prisoner: Save money, release older inmates”
May 31, 2016: Roy A. Borges, Orlando Sentinel
“The Prison Population We Should Talk About Releasing”
May 22, 2016: Danielle DeCourcey, attn.com
“Are Older People Getting Harsher Sentences? Take Our Quiz to Find Out”
May 19, 2016: Emily Hopkins, The Marshall Project
“Compassionate release twice rejected for dying inmate”
May 16, 2016: Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
“The Women at Bedford Prison Writing Their Own History”
May 12, 2016: Radhika Balakrishnan, huffingtonpost.com
“Is the Doctor In? Why Leonard Peltier and Other Aging Prisoners Lack Adequate Health Care”
May 7, 2016: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Truthout
“Politics & Prejudices: The politics of prison reform”
May 4, 2016: Jack Lessenberry, Detroit Metro Times
“Lessenberry: Michigan’s wheelchair prison population”
May 3, 2016: Jack Lessenberry, The Windsor Star
“Crowded Prisons, Rare Parole: A Five Part Series/Part One: Virginia Has Lowest Parole Rate in the Nation”
May 2, 2016: Sandy Hausman, WVTF
“During National Reentry Week, a Spotlight on Older Returning Citizens”
April 29, 2016: Kanya D’Almeida, Rewire
“These States Have the Most Prison Deaths”
April 26, 2016: Alex Greer, SFgate
“Oklahoma’s aging inmates dying behind bars”
April 24, 2016: Andrew Knittle, The Oklahoman
“Oldest inmate in center spends years in Nebraska prison”
April 23, 2016: SFgate
“Michigan’s prison system must undergo comprehensive reform”
April 22, 2016: Jack Lessenberry, Toledo Blade
“These days, NC’s death row inmates die of natural causes”
April 22, 2016: Richard Stradling, The News Observer
“Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay”
April 21, 2016: Jason Furman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, The New York Times
“Bill to change parole eligibility for Alaska inmates moves to House”
April 20, 2016: Mallory Peebles, ktuu.com/KTUU-TV
“Dispatches: U.S. Coming to Grips on Prison Sentencing”
April 19, 2016: Antonio Ginatta, Human Rights Watch
“U.S. Sentencing Commission Approves Significant Changes to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines” (Including compassionate release)
April 15, 2016: Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, United States Sentencing Commission
“Letter: Aging prisoners a taxpayer burden”
April 14, 2016: Joyce Hackett Smith-Moore, auburnpub.com
“Dying in Prison: Michigan Juvenile Lifers Get New Hope…”
April 12, 2016: Diane Bukowski, Voice of Detroit
“Debate Over Prison Population Turns to the States”
April 12, 2016: Peter Eavis, The New York Times
“Maryland lawmakers agree on how to reform criminal justice system”
April 9, 2016: Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun
“Dying in Prison & Morality”
April 4, 2016: John Kiroakou, Manteca Bulletin (CA)
“Debate over Maryland criminal justice bill heads to House of Delegates”
March 26, 2016: Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
“Prison reform gaining momentum: It’s fiscally conservative”
March 24, 2016: Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio via AP
“A Life (Without Parole) Story”
March 21, 2016: David J. Krajicek, thecrimereport.org
“Bill would allow early release of aging inmates”
March 20, 2016: Dave Gram, Burlington Free Press
(also printed in The Washington Times)
“Bill to ease sentencing for drug offenders advances in MD senate”
March 18, 2016: Ovetta Wiggins and John Hicks, Washington Post
“Despite Rhetoric of Criminal Justice Reform, Benefits Are Slow to Come for Those Aging in Prisons in New York State”
March 17, 2016: Nick Malinowski, Huffington Post
“Elderly Inmates Burden State Prisons”
March 17, 2016: Michael Ollove, The Pew Charitable Trusts
“Criminal justice policy should balance the interests of the whole community”
March 16, 2016: Meg McCarthy, the [Vermont] Commons Online
“Many Remembered, Some Forgotten: In Delta cemetery, inmates’ bodies lie”
March 13, 2016: Jeannie Roberts, arksansas online
“US panel weighs changes to program for aging, ailing inmates”
March 10, 2016: Eric Tucker, Associated Press
“Keeping rehabilitated inmates behind bars makes a mockery of America’s so-called ‘justice’ system”
March 9, 2016: Keri Blakinger, Quartz
“Older people in prison, the NY State parole board and the police” (audio)
March 3, 2016: Susan Arbetter interviews Attorney Robert J. Boyle, The Capitol Pressroom, WCNY.org
“Older prison inmates run up state health costs”
March 1, 2016: Joshua Bender, Capital News Service, (Michigan) Record & Clarion
“Criminal justice reform could transform Michigan”
February 29, 2016: Kary L. Moss, The Detroit News
“Life—It’s Worth a Second Look”
February 25, 2016: Daniel J. Wright, jurist.org
“The Purgatory of Prison: Life With(out) the Possibility of Parole”
February 23, 2016: Eddie Conway, Rattling the Bars on therealnews.com
“More Than 130 Maryland Lifers Adjust to Freedom After Court Ruling”
(Note: not one returns to prison)
and: “From a Life Term to Life on the Outside”
February 17 and 18, 2016: Robert Siegel, All Things Considered (npr.org)
“Prison-Release Program Debated in Hearing”
February 17, 2016: Tim Ryan, Courthouse News
“What Dying Looks Like in America’s Prisons”
February 16, 2016: Ann Neumann, the Atlantic
“No Place for Old Men”
February 15, 2016: Dick J. Reavis, Texas Observer
“An unjust lockdown on paroles”
February 11, 2016: Lumumba Bandele & Eve Rosahn, Albany Times Union
“Days before release hearing, ‘model’ 94-year-old inmate dies in N.C.”
February 5, 2016: Ken Stone, mynewsla.com
“Inmate’s death leaves lessons for U.S. ‘justice’ system”
February 3, 2016: Nat Hentoff, Nick Hentoff, cato.org
Reducing LWOP for Youth Can Reduce Future Crisis of Aging in Prison”
January 28, 2016: RAPP, NationInside.org
“Dying in Prison for Love of Family”
January 27, 2016: Nat Hentoff, Nick Hentoff, cato.org
“Board Drags Its Feet on COMPAS”
January 21, 2016: Robert Boyle, Rukia Lumumba, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Eve Rosahn, Susan Tipograph, Michael Warren, New York Law Journal
“A Slow, Lonely Death in Prison”
January 20, 2016: Nat Hentoff, Nick Hentoff, cato.org
“When Dying Alone in Prison is Too Harsh a Sentence”
December 28, 2015: Rachael Bedard, The New York Times
“Lawmakers Consider Options for Aging Prisoners, Including Nursing Home Care”
December 27, 2015: Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org
“Release Aging People in Prison Campaign”
December 7, 2015: Law & Disorder Radio (audio)
“My Life After 44 Years in Prison”
November 2015: AlJazeera.com
“New Report Highlights Growing Number of Aging People in Prison”
November 20, 2015: Kanya d’Almeida, RH Reality Check
“Tufts Amnesty International Hosts Discussion of Solitary Confinement”
featuring RAPP’s Al-Tony Simon
November 17, 2915: Robert Katz, Tufts Daily
Center for Justice at Columbia University issues report (with RAPP & others) on Aging in Prison: Reducing Elder Incarceration & Promoting Public Safety
November 12, 2015: Center for Justice at Columbia University
“Obama Calls on Congress to ‘Ban the Box’ on Criminal Records”
November 3, 2015: Kanya D’Almeida, RH Reality Check
“Lawyer: Release seniors convicted of sex crimes, murder”
October 29, 2015: April Burbank, Burlington Free Press
“McCaskill questions Bureau of Prisons about pilot program for non-violent, elderly prisoners”
October 28, 2015: Press Office of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, Pulaski County Daily
“When Aging Out is No Option”
October 27, 2015: John Kennedy, PE (Pentecostal Evangel) News
“I Went to Prison at Age 60. Here’s What I Learned”
October 15, 2015: Evie Litvok, The Nation
Aging in prison: The Gilchrist Experience, MNN-TV (filmed 10/14/15)
RAPP on Both Sides of the Bars: Aging Inside: The Fortune Society on MNN-TV (filmed 9/17/15)
Watch RAPP at the International Action Center: Al Tony Simon & Anita Rosenblithe
“Mt. Kisco rally demands Cuomo grant clemency to more prisoners”
September 26, 2015: Michael D’Onofrio, The Journal News
“A Chance to Fix Parole in New York”
September 3, 2015: Editorial Board, The New York Times
RAPP on MNN-TV
August 26, 2015: The Gilchrist Experience
“Do You Age Faster in Prison?”
August 24, 2015: Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project
“Can a Federal Prisoner Be Too Old to Jail?”
August 17, 2015: Lisa Peng, National Journal
“Beyond Innocence: US Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Mass Incarceration”
July 24, 2015: Dan Berger, Truthout
(Includes section, “Aging in Prison”)
“Federal prison reform: Who is too old for incarceration?”
July 24, 2015: Abigail Flynn, Urban Wire
“Life Without Parole”
July 10, 2015: Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
“Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole”
July 10, 2015: Beth Schwartzapfe, The Marshall Project
“Elderly people in prison present little risk, but staggering costs”
July 6, 2015: Ashley Demyan, vera.org
“Set free, senior convicts struggle to re-enter society”
July 6, 2015: Melissa May & Michael Okwu, Aljazeera America
“RAPP Aims to Get the Elderly Out of Prison”
June 26, 2015: Tess McRae, QueensPress.com
“What’s Behind New York State’s Elderly Prison Boom?”
June 29, 2015: Rachel Gandy, Prison Policy Initiative
“How to Lock Up Fewer People”
May 23, 2015: Marc Mauer and David Cole, The New York Times
“Ohio Has Growing Problem With Aging Prisoners”
May 17, 2015: Matthew T. Mangino, Vindy.com
“Nursing Homes With Bars: Aging Prisoners Are a Problem in USA. Expert Jamie Fellner Explains”
May 14, 2015: Cecil Caulkins, Legal Broadcast Network
“Federal Prisons Are Failing Aging Inmates, Justice Department Says”
May 6, 2015: Sam Levine, Huffington Post
“The Painful Price of Aging in Prison”
May 2, 2015: Sari Horowitz, The Washington Post
“Tortured, Jailed Black Seniors Released—But Denied Social Security After Life in Prison”
April 24, 2015: Frederick Lowe, New American Media
“American Outcasts: US Prisons and Modern Day Banishment”
April 23, 2015: James Ridgeway, The Intercept
“Crime and Age: The Gap Between What Science Shows and How Prisons Operate”
April 12, 2015: Abolish Prisons
“The Elderly Prison Population Is Soaring, and So Are Its Costs”
April 2, 2015: Lauren Kirchner, Pacific Standard
(Note RAPP slogan at end of article)
“Too Old to Commit Crime?”
March 20, 2015: Dana Goldstein, The New York Times
“Missouri lawmaker wants certain geriatric offenders out of prison”
March 18, 2015: Jesse Bogan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“4% Recidivism Rate”
March 9, 2015: Bradley Schwartz, PrisonPath
“Address the Graying of Prisons”
March 5, 2015: Elizabeth Gaynes & Brian Fischer, timesunion.com
Note: With RAPP, Gaynes and Fischer are leading members of the Aging Reentry Task Force
“Three Tips for Addressing the Elderly Prison Population”
March 2, 2015: emissourian.com
Note: RAPP adds a fourth tip: If the Risk is Low, Let Them Go!
“Out of Prison, And Staying Out, After Third Strike in California”
February 26, 2015: Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
“Illinois’ prison fix requires action, not a commission”
February 17, 2015: David A. Shapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Aging Inmates: A Prison Crisis”
February 15, 2015: Valeriya Metla, Law Street
“A Moral Imperative: Release Aging and Long-Term Prisoners”
February 10, 2015: Jean Trounstine, Truthout
“Ever More US Prisoners Growing Old Behind Bars”
February 9, 2015: Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch Dispatches
Mujahid Farid talks RAPP on Eldridge & Co
January 28, 2015: Ronnie M. Eldridge, CUNY-TV
“Old Age in the Big House”
January 6, 2015: Steve Friess, Aljazeera America
“Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP: Challenging the Punishment Paradigm”
December 10, 2014: Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn: The Roots of Mass Incarceration: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor/Socialism and Democracy special issue
“Ex-Prisoners Are Committing Fewer Crimes That Land Them Back in Jail, Authorities Say”
December 3, 2014: Jon Campbell, The Village Voice
Mujahid Farid on elders and youth behind bars (mp3), with Vanessa McKinney
November 19, 2014: Professor Ricky Jones: Unlocked, Radio WHCR 90.3 fm
“Clemency for Silver-Haired Cons is a Golden Cost-Saver”
November 5, 2014: Editorial, Orlando Sentinel
“DC’s Forgotten Residents”
November 2, 2014: A Voice From the Inside
“By 2030, American Prisons Will Be Filled With Grandmas and Grandpas”
October 27, 2014: Kate Cox, The Nation
“Nursing Homes Behind Bars”
September 28, 2014: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“You’re Old & Finally Out of Prison. What Happens Now?”
September 18, 2014: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“Even Model NYS Inmates Face Steep Barriers to Parole”
September 17, 2014: Bill Hughes, City Limits
“Mohaman Koti, 87-Year-Old Prison Inmate, Granted Parole After 37 Years”
September 16, 2014: Albert Samaha, The Village Voice
“What’s Wrong With This Picture? Elderly People in NY’s Prisons”
September 12, 2014: Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative
“Begging Cuomo for Clemency”
September 12, 2014: Editorial Board, The Bedford/Pound Ridge Record Review
“On Primary Eve, Cuomo Pressed at Home on Prisoner Clemency”
September 7, 2014: Nathan Riley, Gay City News
(Note: Laura Whitehorn, quoted in the article, spoke as representative of RAPP)
“Candle Light Vigil Near Gov. Cuomo’s Home Calls Attention to Clemency”
September 6, 2014: Fios 1 News (video)
“At Conference, Experts Examine Incarceration as a Public Health Issue”
June 6, 2014: Gwen McClure, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Prison Voices: Mujahid Farid, Jamie Fellner, Mark Mauer, Edward Hammock (audio)
April 10, 2014: Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Wave Farm/WGXC-Hudson
RAPP’s Fight for “Basic Fairness and Decency”
April 9, 2014: Nation Inside
Organization Aims to Get Elderly Prisoners Who Have Served Sentences Released (video)
March 2, 2014: Cheryl Wills, NY1 News
U.S. Prison System Resembling Huge Geriatrics Ward
Feb. 26, 2014: Kanya d’Almeida, Inter Press Service
New York’s Broken Parole System (onsite version)
Feb. 16, 2014: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go”: Efforts to Resolve the Growing Numbers of Aging Behind Bars
Jan. 19, 2014: Victoria Law, Truthout
Discussion between host Jim Vrettos (Host, The Rebbe… Radio Show), Soffiyah Elijah (E.D., Correctional Ass’n of New York) and Mujahid Farid (Director of RAPP)
Jan. 6, 2014: The Rebbe, The Radical, And The Rev Radio Show
Calls Grow to Release Aging People from Prison Who Pose No Public Safety Threat
Dec. 23, 2013, Part 2: Democracy Now!
Text & video interview with Amy Goodman (Host, Democracy Now!); Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York; Mujahid Farid, Director of RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison)
“If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go”: Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society
Dec. 23, 2013, Part 1: Democracy Now!
Text & video interview with Amy Goodman & Renée Feltz (Hosts, Democracy Now!); Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York; Mujahid Farid, Director of RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison)
He’s Over 80, but a Convict Gets No Parole
October 8, 2013: Jim Dwyer, The New York Times
Editorial: Writing Off Lives
September 29, 2013: The Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Release Aging Prisoners Project”
September 2013: Herman Bell, FreeHermanBell.org
The Correctional Association’s New Program to Release Aged Prisoners
September 23, 2013: Law and Disorder Radio Show
Text and audio interview with Laura Whitehorn, Mujahid Farid
Op-Ed: Graying Prisoners
August 18, 2013: Jamie Fellner, New York Times
“Prisons Get Grayer, But Efforts to Release the Dying Lag”
August 6, 2013: Emma Quail, City Limits
“Aging prisoners’ costs put systems nationwide in a bind”
July 11, 2013: Kevin Johnson and H. Darr Belser, USA Today
New York State Legislature Joint Resolution Commendation J2416-2013
June 20, 2013: Senate/Assembly of New York State
“Spike in aging prison inmates creates tax turmoil in N.J.”
March 31, 2013: Jean Mikle, The Asbury Park Press
“The State of Aging: Prisoners and Compassionate Release Programs”
August 23, 2012: Tina Maschi, The Huffington Post
“NYSACDL Supports Call for Parole Reform”
Winter, 2011: New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Atticus
“Senior Power: ‘Graying prisons,’ early release, and ‘assisted living’
January 3, 2011: Helen Ripper Wheeler, The Berkeley Daily Planet
“Few Texas Inmates Get Released on Medical Parole”
June 3, 2010: Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune
“Growing old behind bars”
May 8, 2006: Dana DiFillipo, Philadelphia Daily News
Aging Behind Bars
July 13, 1997: David C. Anderson, The New York Times Magazine