RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
71 people–disproportionately Black elders–are projected to die in NY prisons during the upcoming legislative recess if lawmakers don’t act
PARTICIPANTS HIGHLIGHT DATA PROJECTING THAT MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE WILL DIE IN PRISON DURING THE UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE RECESS IF LAWMAKERS DON’T ACT May 31, 2022: Press Release
May 26, 2022: Kathleen Pequeño and Leroy Taylor, Times Union
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling striking down any and all impositions of “life without parole” prison sentences (“LWOP”). The Court found such sentences to be “cruel …
A New Yorker dies in prison every three days. Join the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice to rally and demand action outside legislative leaders’ offices: • 10 AM: Senate Leader …
PARTICIPANTS CALLED ON SENATE LEADER STEWART-COUSINS AND ASSEMBLY SPEAKER CARL HEASTIE TO PASS ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BEFORE LEGISLATIVE SESSION CLOSES ON JUNE 2 May 20, 2022: …
While incarcerated people were left to suffer behind prison walls during the first waves of the pandemic, their families were left to worry in the dark May 16, 2022: Aiyuba …
May 17, 2022: Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo Dear RAPP Family, Yesterday, RAPP’s Director Jose Saldaña released the following statement in response to the white supremacist attack …
This May meeting is our last one before session is over!
May 11, 2022: Arun Venugopal, Gothamist
Together with Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, JASA, United Neighborhood Houses, the Osborne Association, and other leading older adult services providers, the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice is organizing a …
May 10, 2022: Panagiotis Argitis, Dan Gross, RochesterFirst.com/WROC
AS PART OF A ‘PAROLE JUSTICE IS ELDER JUSTICE’ ADVOCACY DAY DURING OLDER AMERICANS’ MONTH, SPEAKERS CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF THE ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS May …
May 9, 2022: Melissa Tanis, Amplified Voices: Criminal Legal Reform Advocates with Lived Experience (Spotify podcast)
May 6, 2022: Jeff Morris, The Record-Review
Location: Bedford Playhouse Theater, 633 Old Post Rd, Bedford, NY 10506Panel:Jose Saldaña, RAPP Executive DirectorMark Shervington, RAPP Statewide Advocacy AssociateDorothy Muller, Founder, Woman 2 Woman & Former Chaplain, Bedford Hills CFMichelle …
May, 2022: Jonathan S. Bor, HealthAffairs.org (Health Affairs, vol 41, no.5)
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin By: Columbia University Center for Justice
April 29, 2022: Amber Vlangas, The Buffalo News
April 29. 2022: Adam Chodak, RochesterFirst.com / WROC
Join MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES to learn about federal clemency as a powerful tool to repair current and past harms to Black people and to weaken the systems that subject …
April 29, 2022: Spectrum News Staff, Spectrum News 1
