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Past News Articles

  • Formerly incarcerated and fighting for prison reform

    By: Tim Murphy, NY Nonprofit Media: Jose Hamza Saldana, director of Release Aging People in Prison, in a conversation with New York Nonprofit Media, discusses how to effect change in the face of an Albany scared of seeming soft on crime.

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  • NY takes strides in clemency reform as Hochul grants 13 pardons and commutation

    By: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Gov. Kathy Hochul granted clemency to 13 individuals last week, a move she claims underscores her commitment to rethinking and reforming the clemency process…

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  • Opinion: Looking at Women’s Equality Day from behind bars

    By: Serena Martin-Liguori, New York Nonprofit Media: Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, and along with gender-expansive people, often punished more harshly than others in prison.

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  • Opinion Letter: Compassionate Release for Those Aging Behind Bars

    By: Carol Shapiro, New York Times: As a former parole commissioner, I know that dementia is just the tip of the iceberg of the problem of mass aging behind bars….

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  • Opinion: I’ve Reported on Dementia for Years, and One Image of a Prisoner Keeps Haunting Me

    By: Katie Engelhart, New York Times: At Federal Medical Center Devens, a federal prison in Massachusetts, there is a prisoner who thinks he is a warden. “I’m the boss. I’m going to fire you,” Victor Orena, who is 89, will tell the prison staff….

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  • Nonprofit mission: ‘A furnished apartment makes someone feel human’

    By: Tim Murphy, NYN Media: How a used couch and other pieces of second-hand furniture have gone a long way for a nonprofit in helping those coming directly out of the prison and the shelter systems

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  • In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”

    By: Victoria Law, Truthout – Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her un-air-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees…

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  • Personnel changes on New York’s Parole Board

    By: David Lombardo, The Capitol Pressroom – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….

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  • State Assembly headed back next week to discuss short-term rentals, elder parole

    By: Maury Thompson, The Post-Star – …The ”elder parole” legislation, which has not passed the Senate, would require the Parole Board to conduct a hearing for all incarcerated individuals age 55 and over who have completed at least 15 years of their sentences.

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  • Incarceration bills give older prisoners second chance in New York

    By: Eric Harvey, The Riverdale Press – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….

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