Legal orgs call on state leaders for prison reform

Over a hundred legal advocacy and prisoner rights groups called on the state to pursue more ways to shrink the state’s prison population, including expanded use of clemency powers

A week after Governor Kathy Hochul enacted her first round of clemencies this year, 135 organizations co-signed and published a letter to state leaders demanding more be done to address “the urgent crisis of racist brutality, medical neglect and denial of basic dignity in New York State prisons.” …