Law Enforcement Action Partnership proposes Gov. Cuomo Issue This Executive Order
April 10, 2020: Law Enforcement Action Partnership Read Here
CDC Emergency Call to Action—Explicitly Include Decarceration and Expanded Access to Healthcare to Curb COVID-19 Impact in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Facilities
April 9, 2020: Drug Policy Alliance and hundreds of individuals and organizations Read Here
Gov. Cuomo: Grant Clemencies to Older New Yorkers in Prison Who Are Vulnerable to Coronavirus
April, 2020: Columbia University School of Social Work and 250 social workers (list open for additional names) Read Here
Brennan Center for Justice Letter to Governors re: COVID-19 and Governors’ Executive Authority to Release Vulnerable People Who Pose No Risk to Public Safety from Incarceration
April 6, 2020: Lauren Brooke-Eisen, Ames Grawert, and Taryn Merkl, Brennan Center for Justice Read Here
Faith Leaders Letter to Gov. Cuomo Urging Clemency in COVID-19 Crisis
April 6, 2020: New York Theological Seminary Read Here
Letter to Gov. Cuomo from Legal Professionals
April 3, 2020: 16 organizations Read Here
Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms
April, 2020: Alexi Jones, Prison Policy Initiative Read Here
Legal Aid Society Demands Release of Vulnerable Incarcerated People
March 30, 2020: The Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense Read Here
Brennan Center for Justice Letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo re: COVID-19 Clemency Power
March 30, 2020: Lauren Brooke-Eisen, Ames Grawert, and Taryn Merkl, Brennan Center for Justice Read Here
Commute Federal Prison Sentences for Populations Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus
March 24, 2020: The Sentencing Project, ACLU, Justice Roundtable, We Got Us Now, Justice Action Network, FreedomWorks, R Street, Leadership Conference, Due Process Institute Read Here
Appeal to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
March 20, 2020: 13 Leaders of NYS Prison Reentry Services and Programs Read Here
Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 – Statistical Tables
February 2020: E. Ann Carson and Mary P. Cowhig, U.S. DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics Read Here
Virtual Life Sentences
August 29, 2019: The Sentencing Project Read Here Visit Website
Levers of Change in Parole Release and Revocation
May 2019: Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Read Here
The Next Step: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes
April 2, 2019: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, The Sentencing Project
Failure Should Not Be an Option: Grading the parole systems of all 50 states
February 26, 2019: Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative (spoiler alert: NYS gets a D-) Read Here
RAPP Testimony to NYS Legislature’s 2019 Public Protection Budget Hearing
January 29, 2019: Jose Saldana and David George, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Read Here
Sentencing Project Testimony to NYS Legislature’s 2019 Public Protection Budget Hearing
January 29, 2019: Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project
Parole Reform White Paper
December 29, 2018: Sarah Aagard, Rosalind Dillon, Joseph Dole, and Raul Dorado, Parole Illinois Read Here
Eight Keys to Mercy: How to Shorten Excessive Prison Sentences
November, 2018: Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative Read Here Visit Website Here
Reimagining Prison
October, 2018: Ruth Delaney, Ram Subramanian, Alison Shames, Nicholas Turner, The Vera Institute Read Here