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Recent Press Advisories and Releases
FAMILIES OF INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS HOLD STATEWIDE RALLIES CALLING FOR END TO CRUEL DOCCS PACKAGE BAN
Rallies in Six Regions Across New York State Call Attention to Financial and Emotional Toll of Package Ban, as well as Harms to Health of Incarcerated People September 27, 2022: Press Release
Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
The signatory organizations respectfully submit this letter alleging that the United States’ extreme prison sentencing policies and practices of life without parole (LWOP), life with parole (LWP), “virtual life,”1 and other term-of-years sentences that exceed life expectancy and thus effectively condemn individuals to death by incarceration (DBI), violate the prohibition against racial discrimination; violate individuals’ …
OBSERVING 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF IN-PRISON DEATH OF VAL GAITER, LONGEST-SERVING WOMAN IN NY PRISONS, LAWMAKERS, ADVOCATES, & LOVED ONES GATHER FOR VIGIL AND DEMAND JUSTICE
VAL DIED OF UNTREATED CANCER WHILE INCARCERATED AT BEDFORD HILLS, AFTER DOCCS MISDIAGNOSED HER WITH ACID REFLUX August 11, 2022: Press Release
Recent News Articles
‘A survival lifeline’: Families decry ban on care packages in NY prisons
September 27, 2022: Michelle Bocanegra, Gothamist
Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”
September 15, 2022: Marjorie Cohn, Truthout