East Ward Missionary Baptist Church, 2011 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10029 (between 103/104 Streets)
Saturday, June 21, 2014 • 6:30 to 9:00 pm • RAPP presentation at Rise Up For Maroon (Russell Maroon Shoatz)
166 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn Hts, NY. Facebook event page.
Monday, May 5, 2014 • 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm • Rally and March: New York State Against Prison Injustice
Saturday, April 12, 2014 • 3:00 pm • “The State of Our Prisons: Where Are We, Where Do We Need To Be?”
Sheraton Hotel, 833 7th Ave. (53rd St.), Metropolitan Room West, 2nd Floor
Panel hosted by Victor Pate, National Action Network NYC Chapter Second Chance Program, with Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
Moderator: Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin, Women’s Prison Association
Panel: Tyrell Muhammad, Prison Visiting Project, Correctional Association Of NY
Eddie Rosario, Prison Visiting Project, Correctional Association Of NY
Laura Whitehorn, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign
Judith Brink, Prison Action Network, Building Bridges
Barbara Inniss, Sparkles Of Joy Ministries
Rosa Soldana, Health Care Solution Specialist
Friday, March 28, 2014 • Symposium• 10:00 am to 5:15 pm • Reducing Incarceration: Endless Punishment, Long-Term Sentences, & Aging in Prison…OR Release & Reentry
Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th St., 8th Fl., Manhattan (A/C/1 to 168th St.)
Saturday, March 8, 2014·4:00 to 5:30 pm • RAPP Panel at Beyond the Bars Conference: OUR ELDERS BEHIND BARS, OUR FAMILIES DIVIDED
Columbia University School of Social Work • 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan (between120 & 121st St) • The number of incarcerated elders in New York and nationally continues to rise as people with long sentences age. Yet incarcerated elders pose the lowest risk to public safety and could contribute mightily to bettering our communities. • How does continued incarceration and perpetual punishment affect elders, their families, friends and communities? AND: How can we win their release and heal our families and communities? Speakers include: Larry White, formerly incarcerated • Barbara Inniss, family member • Dequi Kioni-Sadiki, family member • Tyrrell Muhammad, formerly incarcerated • Ariane Davisson, Columbia grad student • Moderator: Laura Whitehorn, formerly incarcerated; RAPP organizer • Watch the video at March 8, 2014: Our Elders Behind Bars
Friday-Saturday, October 4-5, 2013 • Religion, Abolition, and Mass Incarceration
Cornell University • Two-day conference featuring papers by professors of religion from around the country; keynote plenary panel on activism included Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP; Prisoners Are People Too/PRP2; Decarcerate PA; Ithaca Catholic Worker
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