September 15, 2022: Dozens of organizations across the United States submitted a complaint to United Nations independent experts challenging the United States’ policy and practice of condemning people to death by incarceration (DBI), also known as life sentences. Over 40 people currently serving DBI submitted letters in support of the complaint.
Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole
June 23, 2022: Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project
Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without ParoleRead More
Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin
May 2, 2022: Columbia University Center for Justice
Executive inaction: States and the federal
government fail to use commutations as a
release mechanism
April, 2022: Prison Policy Initiative: “Our survey of eight states found an average of one commutation for every 10,000 imprisoned people each year…”
NEW YORK STATE LEADERS: NO ROLLBACKS TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS!
March, 2022: Letter from civil rights, criminal justice reform, democracy, and philanthropic leaders and organizations to Governor Hochul, Lieutenant Governor Benjamin, and legislative leaders
NEW YORK STATE LEADERS: NO ROLLBACKS TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS!Read More
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
Resolution: Manhattan Community Board Six Supports NY State Senate Bill S15A for Elder Parole
The Elder Parole Bill affords a parole hearing to any incarcerated person after age 55 who has served 15 years in prison
February 16, 2022: Manhattan Community Board Six
Resolution: Manhattan Community Board Six Supports NY State Senate Bill S7514 for Fair and Timely Parole
The Fair and Timely Parole Bill directs that parole be granted unless the inmate presents a current and unreasonable risk or such risk cannot be mitigated by parole supervision
February 16, 2022: Manhattan Community Board Six
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
Elderly, Detained, and Justice-Involved: The Most Incarcerated Generation
Winter, 2022, Rachael Bedard, Joshua Vaughn, and Angela Silletti Murolo, The City University of New York Law Review (Vol. 25, No. 1)
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New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps Rising
“In the months ahead, policy makers should carefully examine opportunities to reduce the population of incarcerated individuals age 50 and above.“
January, 2022: NY State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps RisingRead More
Toward a Fairer Parole Process
“New York State’s parole-review process must focus on who people are at the time of the interview and whether they pose a current and clear public safety risk. If petitioners do not present such a risk, they should be released.”
December 2021, Vera Institute of Justice
New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era
October 2021: Center for Justice at Columbia University
The Problem With Parole: New York State’s Failing System of Release
June 2021: NYU Center on Race, Inequality and the Law and Parole Preparation Project
The Problem With Parole: New York State’s Failing System of ReleaseRead More
A Second Look at Injustice
May 12, 2021: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, PhD, The Sentencing Project