RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
PRESS RELEASE, DEC. 7 — Ahead of International Human Rights Day and as NY Prisons, Jails, & Forensic Facilities Trample the Rights of People Inside, New Bill Will Restore Family Care Packages, Protect In-Person Visiting, Enforce the HALT Solitary Confinement Law, Combat Officer Brutality, and More...
PRESS RELEASE: Dec. 4, 11am • Outside Gov. Hochul’s NYC Office — Rally, Organized by New Yorkers for Clemency, Drew Attention to Women Serving Death-by-Incarceration Sentences, DV Survivors, and Immigrants
PRESS RELEASE: PARTICIPANTS CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF PAROLE REFORM LEGISLATION TO BRING HOME MORE LEADERS
PRESS RELEASE: THIS “BREAKING CYCLES OF HARM & VIOLENCE” EVENT IN ROCHESTER IS PART OF A STATEWIDE SERIES • PARTICIPANTS TODAY CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF PAROLE REFORM LEGISLATION TO BRING HOME MORE LEADERS
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
October 24, Press Release: THE “BREAKING CYCLES OF HARM & VIOLENCE” EVENT IN SYRACUSE WAS PART OF A STATEWIDE SERIES
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
September 8, Press Release: Today, Governor Kathy Hochul granted 13 clemencies, including three commutations to people incarcerated in the New York State prison system and ten pardons to individuals already living in the community. In response, Jose DiLenola, Clemency Campaign Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP), released the following statement...
August 24, Press Release: "My name is Ronald Dennis. I served 36 years in prison in New York State. Today I’m a Syracuse Community Leader with Release Aging People in Prison Campaign and a VOCAL-NY Leader. I applaud The New York State Department of Health and New York State Office for the Aging for coordinating a Master Plan for Aging for our state. However, I believe that if this Master Plan were to exclude older adults in prison, it would only serve to further entrench racism ... and to continue the backwards tradition of ignoring the essential humanity of incarcerated people...."
June 9, Press Release: "New York State legislative leaders’ failure to pass the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills demonstrates a disregard for the plight of tens of thousands of Black and Brown families that have been devastated by generations of racist criminal justice policies." - Jose Saldaña
Media Advisory: On June 8, 10:30a, at Capitol - SPEAKERS WILL CALL FOR PASSAGE OF ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS BEFORE SESSION ENDS THE FOLLOWING DAY
June 5, Press Release: Today, New York University School of Law’s Center for Race, Inequality & the Law released a devastating new publication, finding deepening racial bias in parole release decisions in New York State...
May 24, Press Release: Today, Tarana Burke, founder of #MeToo, announced her support for the Fair Access to Victim Compensation bill as well as the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills. She joins 12 leading advocacy groups for crime victims and survivors, violence interrupters and anti-gun violence groups...
May 23, Media Advisory: HAILING COMMITTEE PASSAGE AND MAJORITY SUPPORT, BPHA CAUCUS, LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES CALL FOR PASSAGE OF ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS BEFORE END OF SESSION
May 23, Press Release: TRecently, news broke that a majority of NY Senators officially co-sponsor the Elder Parole bill, following years of advocacy and public education by a statewide grassroots campaign
May 23, Media Advisory: CHAIRS OF THE SENATE & ASSEMBLY CRIME COMMITTEES, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO JOIN CAUCUS IN CALL FOR PASSAGE OF ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS
May 19, Press Release: Today, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced her support for the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills and calling on the legislature and Governor to enact them this session. DA Clark, along with Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club President Allen Roskoff, and Bronx Assembly Member Chantel Jackson released the following statements...
May 18, Press Release: Today, Chair of the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Aging Cordell Cleare and Chair of the Assembly Standing Committee on Aging Ron Kim released the following joint statement...
May 17, Press Release: Today, advocates learned that NYS DOCCS Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci is retiring from the Dep't of Corrections and Community Supervision. In response, Jerome Wright, Co-Director of the #HALTsolitary Campaign, and Jose Saldana, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign/RAPP, released the following statements...
May 16, Press Release: SUPPORTERS HAIL MILESTONE AND CALL FOR A VOTE ON THE ELDER PAROLE BILL
May 9, Press Release: May 8 ADVOCACY DAY BEGINS WITH 350-PERSON MARCH WITH MARCHING BAND & FREEDOM SONGS IN THE EMPIRE STATE PLAZA CONCOURSE
May 1, Statement: On May 1, the New York State legislature released to the public a budget bill that includes devastating policy changes to weaken the civil rights protections in New York State’s bail law, following two of the deadliest years in New York City jails. In response, Jose Saldana, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign/RAPP, said...
April 28 Media Advisory: Amid the historic visit of the U.N. Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement, a coalition of civil rights, legal, and prisoners’ rights groups working on the issue of life imprisonment, also known as Death by Incarceration, released the following statement...
April 25 Media Advisory: With the state budget already delayed by nearly a month because of Governor Hochul’s insistence on using it to force changes to the successful bail laws to increase pretrial jailing, as well as an 11th hour push to gut the discovery and speedy trial laws, the NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus will co-lead a press conference and rally outside City Hall with Akeem Browder, brother of the late Kalief Browder, and other advocates to save the civil rights protections in New York State’s discovery, speedy trial, and bail laws.
