TANDY LAU / NY AMSTERDAM NEWS
Last fall, NYU School of Law’s Center on Race Inequity and the Law released findings on how the state parole board was significantly more likely to deny non-white people their release, particularly under Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration between the beginning of 2022 and June 2024. The report’s updated version, which includes numbers all the way until Sept. 2024, was provided to the Amsterdam News.
The original report showed the parole board’s release rate for non-white people was just 32.55%, compared to 45.07% for white people under Hochul. Another 1,045 hearings for non-white people were recorded in the updated findings, but just 351 people were released.