RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
January 18, 2023: Press Release FORMERLY INCARCERATED SPEAKERS DECLARE: “WE’RE PART OF THE SOLUTION TO VIOLENCE” AND CALL FOR PASSAGE OF THE ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE TO BRING HOME MORE LEADERS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY SAFETY
January 4, 2023: Campaign Statement
January 1, 2023: Press Release
Today, Governor Kathy Hochul granted 13 clemencies, including four to incarcerated people in the New York State prison system, two of whom are incarcerated members of the Release Aging People …
Photos and video available upon request: • Jared Chausow, jchausow@gmail.com, (650) 814-0565• TeAna Taylor, taylorteana@gmail.com, (518) 847-5497 December 7, 2022: Press Release
Today, the New York State Inspector General released a report entitled Racial Disparities in the Administration of Discipline in New York State Prisons. The report found sharp and widening racial …
Among Other Demands to Protect Human Rights and Improve Safety in Prisons and Outside Communities, Participants urged Governor Hochul and State Officials to: November 21, 2022: Press Release
NOVEMBER 17, 2022: New York, NY: RALLIES TO TAKE PLACE ONE YEAR AFTER GOV. HOCHUL COMMITTED TO GRANT CLEMENCIES ON AN ONGOING BASIS – AND AMID CRISIS OF AGING, SICKNESS & DEATH BEHIND BARS
FOLLOWING HER HISTORIC VICTORY, AND CONTINUED STRENGTH OF SENATE AND ASSEMBLY MAJORITIES, CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR CALLS FOR PROMPT ACTION ON CLEMENCY AND PAROLE REFORM November 9, 2022: RAPP Statement
Rallies in Six Regions Across New York State Call Attention to Financial and Emotional Toll of Package Ban, as well as Harms to Health of Incarcerated People September 27, 2022: …
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 …
VAL DIED OF UNTREATED CANCER WHILE INCARCERATED AT BEDFORD HILLS, AFTER DOCCS MISDIAGNOSED HER WITH ACID REFLUX August 11, 2022: Press Release
June 1, 2022: Joint Statement of More Than 50 NYS Organizations
PARTICIPANTS HIGHLIGHT DATA PROJECTING THAT MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE WILL DIE IN PRISON DURING THE UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE RECESS IF LAWMAKERS DON’T ACT May 31, 2022: Press Release
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling striking down any and all impositions of “life without parole” prison sentences (“LWOP”). The Court found such sentences to be “cruel …
PARTICIPANTS CALLED ON SENATE LEADER STEWART-COUSINS AND ASSEMBLY SPEAKER CARL HEASTIE TO PASS ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BEFORE LEGISLATIVE SESSION CLOSES ON JUNE 2 May 20, 2022: …
May 17, 2022: Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo Dear RAPP Family, Yesterday, RAPP’s Director Jose Saldaña released the following statement in response to the white supremacist attack …
AS PART OF A ‘PAROLE JUSTICE IS ELDER JUSTICE’ ADVOCACY DAY DURING OLDER AMERICANS’ MONTH, SPEAKERS CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF THE ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS May …
April 25, 2022: Press Release SPEAKERS CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF THE ELDER PAROLE, FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE, AND FAIR ACCESS TO VICTIM COMPENSATION BILLS TO PROMOTE HEALING AND SAFETY AS …
April 20, 2022: Press Release PARTICIPANTS RALLY IN NYC, ROCHESTER, ALBANY, WESTCHESTER, AND LONG ISLAND TO LAUNCH POST-BUDGET EFFORT TO PASS ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS BEFORE …
April 19, 2022: Media Advisory PARTICIPANTS WILL RALLY IN NYC, ROCHESTER, ALBANY, WESTCHESTER AND LONG ISLAND TO LAUNCH POST-BUDGET EFFORT TO PASS ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS …
