“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