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Letter to New York Legislators: Pass The Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole Bills to Protect Public Health

“On February 24, 2022, we sent a letter to the leadership of the New York State legislature in support of two bills, the Elder Parole Bill and the Fair and Timely Parole Bill, that would reduce the number of people in New York State prisons and thus lessen the risk of COVID in state prison facilities.“

February 24, 2022: UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project

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RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal

“The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons once every three days on average. In fact, a recent report from Columbia University found more people have died in our state’s prisons in the last 10 years than the total number of people executed during the more than 350 years in which New York applied the death penalty….”

January 25, 2022: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders

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