Updated NYU CRIL Report Estimates 4,152 More Releases of People of Color Since 2016 if Rate for People of Color Matched Rate for White People
(New York State) — Today, New York University School of Law’s Center for Race, Inequality & the Law released new data as an addendum to Freedom Delayed, Justice Denied: Increasing Racial Disparities in New York State’s Parole Release Decisions, a devastating report finding deepening racial bias in parole release decisions in New York State…
People who appear before the parole board have served at least their minimum sentence and often far longer, and are eligible for release consideration. This new data comes in the wake of prison guards killing Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi…