Media InquiriesDavid George, Associate Director, Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP: |
“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, The 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
“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
“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
“NYS Exposed: State releases more than 130 convicted murderers to parole”
April 24, 2017: 10WHEC
“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
“Reuniting an Aging Prison Population With Their Communities”
January 27, 2017: Marie Bonner interviews Dr. Tina Maschi, APA Journals Dialogue
“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
“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
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