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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 state who know that NY State’s package ban is cruel and puts tremendous burden on our families. Zoom and IRL! #BringBackCarePackagesNY (For more info: chansen@newhouli.org)

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DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.

September 15, 2022: 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), also known as life sentences. Over 40 people currently serving DBI submitted letters in support of the complaint.

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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 other term-of-years sentences that exceed life expectancy and thus effectively condemn individuals to death by incarceration (DBI), violate the prohibition against racial discrimination; violate individuals’ right to life; violate the prohibition against torture, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; and are an arbitrary deprivation of liberty….

September 15, 2022: Press Release

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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 Shervington, Statewide Advocacy Associate | Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign
  • Tracey Bowe, The Interview | Protagonist
  • MODERATOR: Elsa Maria Mota, Bertha Justice Fellow | Center for Constitutional Rights

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