Advocates slam gov for failing to commute sentences of incarcerated women

Tami Eldridge, a 51-year-old woman from Queens, has spent the past 25 years in a New York State prison.

While behind bars on murder charges, Eldridge has earned three master’s degrees, mentored countless women and raised a daughter, who, on Tuesday, rallied outside of the governor’s Manhattan office to demand her mom be given what has become an increasingly rare shot at clemency.

“She has a very good example of what it looks like to be rehabilitated, what it looks like to flip over a new leaf and understand what you did, and acknowledge it,” Eldridge’s daughter, LaQuintae, told the Eagle on Tuesday.

Eldridge is one of over 1,800 people with a clemency application pending with Governor Kathy Hochul, who has yet to commute the sentence of a single woman who applied for clemency since she took office four years ago…