TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2022, 6:00 pm • Poughkeepsie, NY • Documentary Screening + Discussion of \”The Interview\”
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC • Unitarian Universalist Church • 67 S. Randolph Avenue • Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
For ‘Clemency Season,’ Prisoner Advocates Want Hochul to Keep Promise All Year
By: Rueven Blau, The City: Last December, the governor said she would change the way pardons and clemency applications were handled. But little has changed since.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2022, 6-8:00 pm • RAPP + RG NYC Movie Virtual Screening • \”TAKEOVER\”!
RAPP & Resource Generation NYC invite you to see Takeover, a 2021 film about the Young Lords\’ historic 1970 occupation of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx • Join us to …
Democrats Got Tough on Crime. Now There’s a Crisis of Aging Behind Bars.
By: Victoria Law, The Nation California and New York legislators are trying to undo the damage caused since the 1994 Crime Bill. But elder parole isn’t working as hoped. Rita …
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2022, 6-8:00 pm • Faith, Redemption, & Parole Justice • a Hempstead Town Hall
New Life Ministries, 167 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, NY 11550 • (Sponsored by RAPP, New Hour, and New York Communities for Change)
Reform NY parole to let people like me prove they can change
Ronald Dennis is a formerly incarcerated New Yorker and leader with VOCAL-NY, a statewide organization that builds power among low-income people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration and homelessness.
Albany again picks up parole reform bills
By: Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle
Senate committee considers bills that would end death by incarceration
By: Raga Justin, Times Union Legislators heard testimony Wednesday on a pair of bills that advocates say would help elderly inmates withdecades-long sentences avoid dying in prison ALBANY — Robert …
Advocates, lawmakers renew push for N.Y. parole reform that would ease the release of older inmates
By: David Slattery, NY Daily News ALBANY — Proponents of a pair of bills that would overhaul the state’s parole system renewed their push for change Wednesday as lawmakers held …
Lawmakers explore proposed reforms to NY state parole system
By: Kate Lisa, Spectrum News 1 Lawmakers took a hard look Wednesday at proposed legislation to reform New York state’s parole system and make it easier for incarcerated people to …
Black, Hispanic people more often disciplined in NY prisons, Inspector General says
By : Eduardo Cuevas, lohud. People of color are more likely to face discipline while incarcerated in New York prisons compared to their white counterparts — and disparities appear to have worsened, a new state Inspector General’s report found.