Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign
To End Mass Incarceration and Build Racial Justice
Led by formerly incarcerated people and family members of people in prison, RAPP works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences
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Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Karen Juanita Carrillo, Amsterdam Newst — Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on …
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña Talk About The Young Lords
Johanna Fernández, Jose Saldańa, susie day, CounterPumch — Commemorating Johanna Fernández • her interview with RAPP’s Jose Saldaña, conducted in 2020
Journalist, Elder Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Perpetual Detention Unjust, Human Rights Groups Appeal to United Nations
Abolitionist Law Center — (PHILADELPHIA) For more than 44 years, U.S. citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal has been arbitrarily detained in the Commonwealth of …
If governing happens behind closed doors, is it still democracy?
Roni Minter, Times Union — “Like many New Yorkers, I believed that if you organized, educated, testified, built support and convinced enough …
Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo
May 17, 2022: Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo Dear RAPP Family, Yesterday, RAPP’s Director Jose Saldaña released the following …
Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin By: Columbia University Center for Justice