“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