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Survivors of Incarceration, Family Members, & Allies Hold Rallies Across New York State, Urging Governor and Lawmakers to Implement the HALT Solitary Law, Expand Pathways for Release, and End Abuse In Prisons & Jails
PRESS RELEASE, September 24, 2026 — (New York) Today, people who experienced incarceration, family members of people inside, and other allies as part of leading justice campaigns across the state came together to hold a series of actions in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Long Island, and New York City. There is a longstanding and acute crisis of racist brutality, torture, and death in New York State prisons, jails, and detention facilities…
RECIPIENTS OF EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, FAMILIES OF INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS, LAWMAKERS & FORMER DOCCS SERGEANT RALLY & MARCH TO DEMAND GOV. HOCHUL GRANT CLEMENCIES
PRESS RELEASE, September 15, 2026
(New York, NY) – Today, New Yorkers who have received executive clemency and families of incarcerated New Yorkers, along with lawmakers and a former DOCCS Sergeant, held a rally and march to demand Gov. Hochul fulfill her commitment to grant clemencies.
RECIPIENTS OF EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY & FAMILIES OF INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS, LAWMAKERS, & FORMER DOCCS SERGEANT TO RALLY & MARCH TO DEMAND GOV. HOCHUL GRANT CLEMENCIES
PRESS RELEASE, September 15, 2026, New York, NY: Today, New Yorkers who have received executive clemency and families of incarcerated New Yorkers, along with lawmakers and a former DOCCS Sergeant, held a rally and march to demand Gov. Hochul fulfill her commitment to grant clemencies.
ADVOCATES WELCOME PARDONS OF SIX PEOPLE ALREADY LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY, YET CONDEMN GOV. HOCHUL’S FAILURE TO GRANT COMMUTATIONS TO ANY OF THE TENS OF THOUSANDS IN PRISON
RAPP Statement, August 28 5, 2026 — (New York) Today, Governor Kathy Hochul granted six pardons to people living in the community, all of whom had transformed their lives and needed and deserved this relief. However, she failed to act on a single clemency application from any incarcerated people, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis in her prison system…
Temple Law Professor and Students File Human Rights Petition on Behalf of 73-Year-Old Pennsylvania Prisoner Serving Life Without Parole
PRESS RELEASE, August 19, 2026 — Philadelphia, PA (August 19, 2026) Yesterday, Professor Rachel López and law students at Temple University Beasley School of Law filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of Charles “Shug” Slaughter, a 73-year-old man with prostate cancer and a heart condition who has spent five decades incarcerated in a Pennsylvania state prison serving a sentence of life without parole (LWOP)….
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON END OF NY LEGISLATIVE SESSION
RAPP Campaign Statement, June 5, 2026 — (New York) Today, on the final day of New York State’s 2026 Legislative Session, Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP), a crime survivor, and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, released the following statement…
Advocates Hold Funeral-Themed Rally Condemning Gov. Hochul & Lawmakers for Failing to Address Crisis of Abuse & Death in NY Prisons & Urging Action in Final Session Days
PRESS RELEASE, June 2, 2026 — Today, a coalition of formerly incarcerated leaders, grieving families, and human rights advocates gathered in the corridor to the New York State Capitol for a powerful and solemn funeral rally condemning Governor Kathy Hochul and the legislature for their inaction in the face of suffering, physical and sexual abuse, and death in prison, and demanding they act in the final few days of session…
For 2nd Time in a Week, Community Members Disrupted NY Legislative Session, Demanding Legislative & Executive Action to End NY Prisons Crisis by Expanding Pathways of Release & Ending Abuses Inside
PRESS RELEASE, May 26, 2026 — Participants Called for the Removal of Commissioner Martuscello, Implementation of the HALT Solitary Law & Expanded Pathways of Release in order to End the Longstanding and Acute Crises of Racism, Brutality, and Death…
FORMER PAROLE COMMISSIONER, CURRENT BK DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CRIME SURVIVORS & FORMERLY INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS HAIL KEY NY SENATE COMMITTEE PASSAGE OF FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE ACT
PRESS RELEASE, May 20, 2026 — (New York State) Today, the New York State Senate Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction passed the Fair & Timely Parole Act, which restores the Parole Board to its original purpose of evaluating people’s readiness for release, rather than denying people based solely or primarily on the conviction for which they have already served their sentence, while preserving the Board’s discretion to make individualized determinations. In other words, it would provide more rigorous parole reviews for incarcerated people who are already parole-eligible, with a focus on current safety risk. The bill passed the committee with unanimous support from committee members of the Senate Majority Conference.
ADVOCATES WELCOME PARDONS OF 19 PEOPLE ALREADY LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY YET CONDEMN GOV. HOCHUL’S FAILURE TO COMMUTE ANY SENTENCES FOR WOMEN AHEAD OF MOTHER’S DAY
STATEMENT, May 8, 2026 — (New York State) Today, Governor Kathy Hochul granted 19 pardons to people living in the community, all of whom had transformed their lives and deserved this relief. However, she failed to act on a single clemency application from an incarcerated woman ahead of Mother’s Day, or any incarcerated people of any gender, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis in her prison system. In response, Jose Saldana, Director of RAPP, released the following statement///
SIX MOTHER’S DAY RALLIES FOR PAROLE JUSTICE ACROSS NY STATE FEATURE STATE & LOCAL LAWMAKERS AND FAMILIES SEPARATED BY INCARCERATION
Press Release, May 8, 2026 — (New York State) Today, on the eve of Mother’s Day weekend, state and local lawmakers, formerly incarcerated mothers and mothers with loved ones in prison, crime survivors, and more held six Mother’s Day Rallies for Parole Justice across New York State. In Harlem, Buffalo, Yonkers, Newburgh, Rochester, and Hauppauge, participants celebrated mothers and mother figures behind the wall of New York state prisons…
LAWMAKERS, CRIME SURVIVORS, & FORMERLY INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS RALLY TO CALL ATTENTION TO SURGING DEATHS IN NY PRISONS AND DEMAND PAROLE JUSTICE
Press Release, April 27, 2026 — (Albany, NY) – Today, NY State Lawmakers, crime survivors and formerly incarcerated New Yorkers held a rally and press conference to call attention to surging deaths in New York State prisons and demand passage of common-sense Parole Justice measures to save lives, save money, and reunite families…
Advocates, Families, Directly Impacted New Yorkers, and Elected Officials Demand Change at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Following Multiple Deaths
Press Release, April 16, 2026 — Speakers Call for Urgent Reforms to Prison Conditions and Fair Pathways Home for Incarcerated People Who Have Transformed While Inside…
RAPP CAMPAIGN HAILS CALL BY MAYOR MAMDANI TO PASS ELDER PAROLE IN NEW YORK STATE
Press Release, April 8, 2026 — (New York) At a press conference on April 7 to announce a new therapeutic unit in Bellevue, New York City Mayor Zohran K. Mamdani called on Albany lawmakers to pass Elder Parole for New York State…
LAWMAKERS, CRIME SURVIVORS, & FORMERLY INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE DENOUNCING CRISIS OF RACISM, BRUTALITY, & TORTURE IN NY PRISONS
Press Release, March 16, 2026 — As Part of “End Mass Incarceration” Advocacy Day, Speakers Demand Fair Pathways Home from Prison & End to Prison Abuse…
ADVOCATES PEN LETTER TO GOV + NY LAWMAKERS ENUMERATING URGENT QUESTIONS FOR NYSDOCCS ON DEADLY PRISON CRISIS AMID BUDGET DISCUSSION
Press Release, March 13, 2026 — Questions address staff brutality, HALT Law violations, aging and death, parole, and visiting rights…
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON GOP MONROE COUNTY LEGISLATORS’ DERELICTION OF DUTY
RAPP STATEMENT, March 11, 2026 — (New York) Yesterday, GOP Monroe County Legislators temporarily abandoned their posts at a public hearing when a constituent, Jalil Muntaqim, rose to speak on the housing crisis in Rochester. Jose Saldaña, Director of RAPP, a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, and a crime survivor, released the following statement…
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON NY COMPTROLLER REPORT ON CRISIS OF AGING IN NY PRISONS
RAPP STATEMENT, March 3, 2026 — New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a new report, “Post-COVID Trends in New York’s Aging Prison Population,” which recommends that state lawmakers consider parole reforms and other measures to safely reduce the number of older adults in state prisons…
LAWMAKERS, CRIME SURVIVORS & FORMERLY INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE CALLING FOR FAIR PATHWAYS HOME FROM PRISON & END TO PRISON ABUSE
MEDIA ADVISORY, February 11, 2026 — Ahead of State Budget Hearing on NY Prison System, Speakers to Call for Sentencing Reform, Parole Justice, and Urgent Policies to Transform Conditions Behind Bars…
PRESS RELEASE • NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK, LAWMAKERS, CRIME SURVIVORS & FORMERLY INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS TO RALLY FOR PAROLE JUSTICE IN NYS CAPITOL
PRESS RELEASE, January 21, 2026 — (Albany, NY) — Today, the National Action Network’s House of Justice, more than a dozen state legislators, crime survivors and formerly incarcerated advocates held a rally to demand passage of Parole Justice legislation to promote transformation and healing, help build safe communities, and end permanent punishment…
January 13, noon • Jails Action Coalition & HALT Solitary Campaign to rally ahead of Board of Correction Meeting to Honor Kyron Randall, Who Died at Rikers in December & to Urge NYC Jails Blueprint
MEDIA ADVISORY, January 12, 2026 — WHAT: People who have been incarcerated on Rikers Island, family members, and allies as part of the Jails Action Coalition and #HALTsolitary Campaign to hold a rally ahead of a meeting of the Board of Correction, after the death of Kyron Randall at Rikers in late December. NYC jails remain in a deadly humanitarian crisis that has taken the lives of countless New Yorkers and continues to leave thousands of people in dire conditions….
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON FIRST DAY OF 2026 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
PRESS RELEASE, January 7, 2026 — (New York) Today is the first day of the 2026 New York State Legislative Session. Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons and a crime survivor, released the following statement:
ADVOCATES WELCOME 13 CLEMENCIES YET CONDEMN GOV. HOCHUL’S FAILURE TO ACT ON HUNDREDS OF OTHER APPLICATIONS AMID PRISON CRISIS & MASS DEPORTATION REGIME
PRESS RELEASE, December 30, 2025 — (New York) Today, Governor Kathy Hochul granted two commutations to incarcerated people and 11 pardons to people living in the community, all of whom had transformed their lives. However, she failed to act on hundreds of other applications, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis in her prison system and Trump’s mass deportation regime. In response, Jose DiLenola, Clemency Campaign Director for RAPP and a survivor of 26 years in prison, released the following statement:
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR HOCHUL’S SIGNING OF PRISON OVERSIGHT LEGISLATION
PRESS RELEASE, December 19, 2025 — ((New York) Today, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a prison oversight omnibus bill. Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, released the following statement…
HALTsolitary Statement Following News that Witness in Robert Brooks’ Murder Case Was Severely Beaten by Guards & Thrown in Solitary as Retaliation for Testifying
HALTsolitary PRESS RELEASE, December 7, 2025 — (New York) It has been reported that officers at Attica C.F. beat up Michael Peacock to the point of having broken bones and threw him in solitary confinement under false “assault on staff” charges for testifying against officers in the Robert Brooks murder case, and then refused to allow a reporter to visit him…
U.S. Congressmembers Pen Letter Urging Passage of Parole Justice Legislation
PRESS RELEASE, December 2, 2025, New York, N.Y. — Today, seven U.S. Congressmembers sent a letter to Governor Hochul, NY Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie urging enactment of the Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills. The letter, which was led by U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez and signed by U.S. Rep. George Latimer, U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, and U.S. Rep. Grace Meng…
AT 7 RALLIES ACROSS NY, LAWMAKERS, CRIME SURVIVORS, FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE, & FAMILIES WITH LOVED ONES IN PRISON KICK OFF CAMPAIGN TO WIN PAROLE JUSTICE
PRESS RELEASE, December 1, 2025, NEW YORK STATE — AMID A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN NEW YORK PRISONS, SPEAKERS DEMAND PASSAGE OF ELDER PAROLE AND FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE BILLS TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR ALL, REUNITE FAMILIES, AND END PERMANENT PUNISHMENT
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR HOCHUL’S PLAN TO CLOSE BARE HILL PRISON
PRESS RELEASE, November 18, 2025, NEW YORK, NY — Today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to close Bare Hill prison, months after the state budget allowed for the expedited closure of three prisons. Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, released the following statement…
Survivors of NYC Jails, People Who Lost Loved Ones, and Other Leading Experts Held Healing Action & Released New Blueprint to Address the Deadly Humanitarian Crises of NYC Jails
PRESS RELEASE, November 13, 2025, NEW YORK, NY — With the Hope of Partnering with a New Mayoral Administration and City Council to Enact Long Overdue and Urgent Reforms, the Blueprint Provides a Concrete 10-Point Plan for Saving Lives, Stopping Abuse, and Improving Safety by Reducing Incarceration, Ending Solitary Confinement, Ensuring Medical and Mental Health Care, Closing Rikers Island, and More…
On Veterans Day, Currently & Formerly Incarcerated Veterans Pen Letter Urging NY Political Leaders to Enact Parole Justice Legislation to Uphold Values, Support Healing, & Improve Safety
PRESS RELEASE, November 11, 2025 — NEW YORK, NY — On Veterans’ Day, more than a dozen currently and formerly incarcerated veterans as well as veterans with loved ones in prison sent a letter to Governor Hochul, DOCCS Commissioner Martuscello, NY Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie urging enactment of the Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills…
The Death of Imam Abdallah Hadian • A Moment that Demands Honest Reckoning
PRESS RELEASE, November 7, 2025 — NEW YORK, NY — The Parole Preparation Project mourns the death of Imam Abdallah Hadian, a respected Islamic chaplain who took his own life inside Marcy Correctional Facility. We grieve alongside his family, the Muslim community, and the thousands of people whose lives he uplifted through faith and compassion. But grief alone is not enough. This moment demands outrage, truth, accountability, and redirection…
Oct. 29, 5p • Rochester City Council Members to Hold Hearing on Prison Staff Brutality Amid Humanitarian Crisis Behind Bars
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 29, 2025 — Rochester City Council Members Stanley Martin, Mary Lupien and Kim Smith will hold a public hearing on prison staff brutality amid a humanitarian crisis in New York State prisons, Wednesday, October 29th at 5 PM
Lawmakers, Survivors of Solitary & Family Members Close Statewide Journey to Justice Bus Tour with Rally in Harlem to Demand End to Solitary Confinement in New York City and New York State
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 23, 2025 — Senator Cordell Cleare, Assembly Member Eddie Gibbs, Assemblymember Maritza Davila, Assemblymember Jordan Wright, Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia, other lawmakers, people who survived solitary confinement, family members, and allies will hold a rally in New York City as part of the statewide Journey to Justice Bus Tour to end solitary confinement…
Lawmakers, Survivors of Solitary & Family Members to Hold Mobile Museum Event in Mt. Kisco Today to End Solitary Confinement
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 22, 2025 — Oct. 22: Exhibit at 4:30 pm, Remarks at 7:30 pm • Participants Will Urge Full Implementation of the HALT Solitary Law to Stop Torture, Save Lives, & Improve Safety for Everyone…
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON VERDICTS IN MURDER OF ROBERT BROOKS
PRESS RELEASE, October 20, 2025 — oday, the jury returned verdicts in the trials of Matthew Galliher, David Kingsley and Nicholas Kieffer for the murder of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated person, at Marcy Prison. Kingsley was found guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree assault; the others were found not-guilty…
Survivors of Solitary & Family Members Launch Statewide Bus Tour in Buffalo to End Solitary Confinement
PRESS RELEASE, October 20, 2025 — JEROME WRIGHT, SPEAKING: But let me say this: Before the truth can set you free, you need to recognize which lies are holding you hostage. And the lie that holds us hostage in this country is that there’s justice What we saw today was a lack of justice….
HALT Solitary: Survivors, Allies File Complaint of Torture, Abuse, and Death in NY Prisons and Jails with UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture and Extra-Judicial Killings
PRESS RELEASE, October 1, 2025 — (New York) Yesterday, the HALT Solitary Campaign filed a complaint with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Executions regarding abuse, torture, and deaths taking place in New York state prisons and local jails…
Advocates Call On Gov. Hochul to Use Clemency Powers to Protect New Yorkers from Humanitarian Crisis in State Prisons
PRESS RELEASE, September 30, 2025 — The rally, led by The NAACP New York State Conference, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign, The Survivor Justice Project, The Fortune Society, VOCAL-NY and other organizations comes as Gov Hochul has granted no clemencies to incarcerated people in all of 2025 and has granted only two clemencies to only incarcerated women since taking office…
New ACLU Report Reveals Humanitarian Crisis of Rapidly Aging Prison Population
PRESS RELEASE • Alyssa Gordon / ACLU — (NEW YORK) The American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs released Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly Incarceration September 22, a report exposing how U.S. prisons are failing to keep up with the rising number of aging people behind bars. Outdated sentencing laws have left tens of thousands of people imprisoned for decades, creating a humanitarian, fiscal, and operational crisis as correctional departments struggle to meet the medical, mental health, and accessibility needs of an aging prison population…
Survivors of Solitary, Family Members, and Allies Denounce HALT Review Committee’s Recommendations, Urging Immediate + Full Implementation of the HALT Solitary Law
PRESS RELEASE, September 19, 2025 — (New York) As People Continue to Suffer and Die in Solitary Confinement, Groups Urge New York Prisons to Fully Implement the HALT Solitary Law to Stop Torture, Save Lives, and Improve Safety for Everyone…
New Report Documents Extreme Rate of Deaths by Suicide in NY Prisons Driven by DOCCS’s Illegal Use of Solitary Confinement
PRESS RELEASE, August 27, 2025 (New York) — Today, the HALT Solitary Campaign and the Mental Health Alternatives to Solitary Confinement (MHASC) campaign released a new report: Death by Illegal Solitary Confinement: Suicides and Self-Harm in New York State Prisons. The report documents how New York State prisons in 2024 had the highest absolute number and highest rate of deaths by suicide since at least 2000…
135+ Groups Urge Governor Hochul to Act on New York’s Prison Crisis with Executive Clemency and More
PRESS RELEASE, August 21, 2025 — New York) — A coalition of more than 135 civil rights, faith-based, crime victims and community organizations today released a letter calling on Governor Kathy Hochul and other state officials to use clemency powers and more to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in New York’s prisons…
**POSTPONED!** • Foley Square • PRESS CONFERENCE to CALL ON NY STATE LAWMAKERS TO CONVENE EMERGENCY SESSION • stay tuned 4 new August date!
PRESS RELEASE, July 30, 2025 — WHAT: Press conference to call on Governor Hochul and State lawmakers to protect our communities by convening a special session.
WHEN: 11 AM, Thursday, July 31, 2025
WHERE: Foley Square, New York City
“DOCCS is not above the law” • Judge Orders State Prisons to End Illegal “Suspension” of HALT Solitary Law
PRESS RELEASE, July 2, 2025 — (Albany, NY) Albany Supreme Court Judge Lynch ordered the state prison system to end its illegal suspension of the HALT Solitary Confinement Law and to fully implement the law. In response to the decision, Jerome R. Wright, #HALTsolitary Campaign Co-Director and survivor of solitary in NY prisons, issued the following statement…
RAPP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON END OF NY LEGISLATIVE SESSION
PRESS RELEASE, June 17, 2025 — (New York) Today, on the final day of New York State’s 2025 Legislative Session, Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, released the following statement: “Ultimately, we are outraged but we are not defeated…”
Estimated 75 People Dead in NY Prisons Since Guards’ Murder of Robert Brooks; Legislature Has Done Nothing to Address this Crisis
PRESS RELEASE, June 9, 2025 — (New York) Today, exactly six months after staff at Marcy Prison murdered Robert Brooks on video, Jose Saldaña, Director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign (RAPP) and a survivor of 38 years in New York State prisons, released the following statement as the 2025 New York State Legislative Session nears its end…
NYC RALLY JUNE 6 • 10 Years After Kalief Browder’s Passing, Community to Hold Rally to Demand Implementation of Local Law 42 Ending Solitary Confinement
MEDIA ADVISORY, June 5, 2025— June 6 marks 10 years since Kalief Browder died after suffering in solitary confinement. June 7 marks six years since Layleen Polanco died in solitary confinement. People who have survived solitary confinement, family members, and members of the Jails Action Coalition and HALT Solitary Campaign will hold a rally to honor Kalief Browder and demand an end to solitary confinement….
MAJORITY OF NEW YORK STATE SENATORS OFFICIALLY CO-SPONSOR FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE
PRESS RELEASE, June 6, 2025— (NEW YORK) Today, a majority of New York State Senators (32) co-sponsored the Fair & Timely Parole Act (S.159-Salazar/A.127-Weprin), pending legislation in New York State that restores the Parole Board to its original purpose of evaluating people’s readiness for release, rather than denying people based solely on their conviction, while preserving the Board’s discretion to make individualized determinations…
Advocates & Lawmakers Hold Rally + Press Conference Demanding Fair Pathways Home for Incarcerated People in Response to Guards’ Brutal Murders
PRESS RELEASE, June 4, 2025 — (Albany, NY) With the state’s legislative session nearing its end, formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, people with loved ones in prison, lawmakers and other advocates rallied today to demand urgent passage of legislation to create and expand fair pathways home for incarcerated people in response to the murders of Robert Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, and countless others by prison guards and security supervisors…
Current and Former Corrections Leaders Pen Letter Documenting How Solitary Confinement Does Not Keep People Safe & Directly Worsens Safety for Everyone
PRESS RELEASE, May 30, 2025 — The Letter Calls for a Prohibition on Solitary Confinement beyond Periods Measured in Hours and Promotes Alternative Forms of Separation involving Full Days of Out of Cell Group Programming and Engagement…