RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
By: Wyatt Stayner, ScheerPost — When Theresa Grady, 62, calls her husband in prison, she tries not to let her voice crack and does her best not to cry. Sometimes, though, her upbeat veneer fractures, she told Prison Journalism Project....
By: Kathryn Haslanger and Ruth K Finkelstein: New York Times • Re “Living Out the Twilight Years in Prison” (Opinion, Oct. 22), by Joseph Rodriguez and Carmilla Floyd, about older prisoners in California: In New York State, we, too, face a troubling paradox as the imprisoned older population grows rapidly...
By: Berkeley Brean, News10NBC • ALBANY, NY — As more inmates get paroled or serve their sentence and get released, the percentage of older inmates is going up. So we went to the Liberty Pole to meet people who say the state should reform the system ...
By: Madeline Safford, RochesterFirst.com • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Local and state officials came together Monday to honor the crime reduction work of formerly incarcerated people and families of people in prison...
TODAY, October 30, Media Advisory: THE “BREAKING CYCLES OF HARM & VIOLENCE” EVENT IN ROCHESTER IS PART OF A STATEWIDE SERIES, WITH OTHER ACTIONS IN LONG ISLAND, WESTCHESTER, NYC, TROY, SYRACUSE, POUGHKEEPSIE & BUFFALO
By: Kaitlyn Kennedy, Tag24 • Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations often focuses on capital punishment when assessing countries' human rights records, but this year's Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on "the other death penalty" – death by incarceration...
By: Rachel Rippetoe, Law 360: Jose Saldana had long passed his minimum 25-year prison sentence as he prepared for his fifth parole hearing in November 2017....
By: Nadia Galindo/News 12, Westchester: "It took me five times at the parole board to be denied," said Dannie McQueen, of Mount Vernon. "I didn't have life, I had a conditional release and that's how I got out." ...
By: James Ford, PIX/11 News: IIf a person older than 55 has been incarcerated for more than 15 years and has proven themselves to be a model prisoner, should they be guaranteed consideration for parole, no matter their crime? It’s a question that was at the center of a rally in Yonkers on Wednesday...
October 24, Press Release: THE “BREAKING CYCLES OF HARM & VIOLENCE” EVENT IN SYRACUSE WAS PART OF A STATEWIDE SERIES
By: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In anticipation of the 2024 New York State Legislative Session, a group of state lawmakers, violence interrupters and advocates converged to honor the crime reduction endeavors of previously incarcerated individuals and families of those still in prison...
October 18, Press Release: THE “BREAKING CYCLES OF HARM & VIOLENCE” EVENT IN NYC IS PART OF A STATEWIDE SERIES, WITH LATER ACTIONS IN LONG ISLAND, WESTCHESTER, TROY, SYRACUSE, ROCHESTER, POUGHKEEPSIE & BUFFALO
