Statewide rallies held in New York call for better conditions in state prisons
November 21, 2022: News 12 Staff, News 12 Long Island
Gov Hochul fails to fulfill clemency reform promise, advocates say
November 17, 2022: Since assuming office last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not delivered on a promise to grant clemency at a higher rate than her predecessors, say advocates of criminal justice reform…
While some clemency reforms quietly take shape, advocates look to gov for more
November 16, 2022: Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle
Women Bear the Brunt of New York’s Prison Care Package Ban
November 15, 2022: Molly Hagan, The Appeal
Zeldin Threat Passed, Criminal Justice Reformers Ready to Push Hochul
November 11, 2022, Reuven Blau,The City
Out of Prison, Meat in the Game: Anthony Dixon vs the Matrix
November 6, 2022, susie day, CounterPunch+
Costs of incarceration rise as inflation squeezes inmates, families
October 17, 2022: Casey Quinlan, AlbanyHerald.com
‘A survival lifeline’: Families decry ban on care packages in NY prisons
September 27, 2022: Michelle Bocanegra, Gothamist
Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN
September 16, 2022: David M. Greenwald, The Davis Vanguard
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 …
As summers get hotter, incarcerated people swelter inside NY prisons
August 31, 2022, Eduardo Cuevas, lohud.
New York’s ageing prisoners languish with poor medical care and little hope
Advocates in New York hope the case of Valerie Gaiter, who died in prison after 40 years behind bars, will help bring reform August 20, 2022: Gloria Oladipo,The Guardian
The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom
July 31, 2022: susie day, CounterPunch+
Governor Hochul’s ‘Rolling’ Clemency Process Has Set Just One Person Free
July 25, 2022: Victoria Law, Hell Gate
Former convicts deserve better
July 24, 2022: Eddie Gibbs, NY Daily NewsGibbs is the first and only formerly incarcerated member of the Legislature, representing East Harlem in the NY State Assembly
Advocates question Hochul’s unfulfilled promise to staff parole board
July 11, 2022: Kate Lisa, NYS Spectrum News 1
The Graying of America’s Prison Population
June 23, 2022: Audrey Nielson, The Crime Report
Will a Judge Force Cancer-Stricken Black Elder Mutulu Shakur to Die Behind Bars?
June 22, 2022: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
I Joined the Parole Board to Make a Difference. Now I Call It ‘Conveyor Belt Justice.’
Between the grueling schedule, copious paperwork, abrupt hearings and risk-averse colleagues, prison reformer Carol Shapiro realized the New York parole system was dysfunctional by design June 17, 2021: Carol Shapiro …