THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022, 7:00 – 8:30 pm • “The Interview” screening + Panel Discussion on Parole Justice in Beacon, NY
Story Screen Beacon Theater, 445 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
‘A survival lifeline’: Families decry ban on care packages in NY prisons
September 27, 2022: Michelle Bocanegra, Gothamist
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, 11:00 am • Statewide Rallies to Stop the Package Ban!
Join RAPP and The Long Island Social Justice Action Network, Partnership for the Public Good (Buffalo), Citizen Action of NY, NYS Jails-Justice Network, Sweet Freedom Farm, and dozens across the …
FAMILIES OF INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS HOLD STATEWIDE RALLIES CALLING FOR END TO CRUEL DOCCS PACKAGE BAN
Rallies in Six Regions Across New York State Call Attention to Financial and Emotional Toll of Package Ban, as well as Harms to Health of Incarcerated People September 27, 2022: …
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 6:00pm • RAPP Westchester/Hudson Valley, via Zoom
Hope you all had an amazing summer! Please join us for our first Fall Westchester/Hudson Valley meeting and gear up for some amazing outreach events: documentary screenings, tabling and canvassing …
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022, 6:00 pm • New Member Orientation • NY Statewide • Virtual
Join our new member orientation — learn more about the history and values of RAPP and how you can get involved in bringing parole justice to New York State!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022, 3:00 pm, BUFFALO, NY • COOKOUT!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, Buffalo, NY 14211
Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN
September 16, 2022: David M. Greenwald, The Davis Vanguard
DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
Dozens of organizations across the United States submitted a complaint to United Nations independent experts challenging the United States’ policy and practice of condemning people to death by incarceration (DBI), …
Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”
September 15, 2022: Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
Prisoner Advocates Turn to the UN to End Extreme Prison Sentences
In a sharply worded complaint to UN special rapporteurs submitted on Thursday, advocacy groups call for an end to “death by incarceration” sentencing in the US September 15, 2022: Victoria …
Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
The signatory organizations respectfully submit this letter alleging that the United States’ extreme prison sentencing policies and practices of life without parole (LWOP), life with parole (LWP), “virtual life,”1 and …
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 6:00 – 9:00 pm, Screening of “The Interview” & community discussion with formerly incarcerated people, activists, & organizers
Join RAPP and the Center for Constitutional Rights at the People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St., NYC; TALK-BACK featuring: Anthony Dixon, Director of Community Engagement | Parole Preparation Project Mark …
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022, 12:00 – 4:00 pm • Decarcerate Hudson Valley Community Day in Poughkeepsie, NY • “Attica Was Just the Beginning”
Newburgh LGBTQ+ Community Center, Waryas Park Promenade, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022, 6:00 pm • NYC Monthly Membership Meeting • via Zoom
Come prepared with questions/comments and creative ideas! Looking forward to seeing you!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022, 7-8:00 pm • Night of the Storytellers • online • with RAPP Community Leader Theresa Grady
Stories of strength, love, truth, and gratitude from people impacted by incarceration