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“Parole reform must be at the top of the agenda in Albany”
May 11, 2021: Sochie Nnaemeka and TeAna Taylor, USA Today/Lohud
“Op-Ed: We must end death by incarceration”
May 7, 2021: Senator Brad Hoylman, amny
“Activists cry ‘Bring them home’ at Hinchey’s office”
May 6, 2021: Kate Lisa, Hudson Valley 360
“Time ticking on bills for earlier release”
May 6, 2021: Naeisha Rose, Queens Chronicle
“Parole reform advocates call for change, parole consideration for aging prisoners”
May 1, 2021: News 12 Staff, News 12 the Bronx
“Thousands of New Yorkers are in Prison for Life. These D.A. Candidates Want to Change That”
April 28, 2021: Sam Mellins, NY Focus
“Opinion: Second Chance Efforts Must Center Incarcerated Women Who Never Had a First Chance”
April 28, 2021: Donna Hylton, Gotham Gazette
“Another Voice: Parole reform bills will fix longtime injustices”
April 27, 2021: Stephen Hart, The Buffalo News
“Legal Aid backs changes to NY parole laws”
April 27, 2021: Nick Reisman, City of Albany/Spectrum News
“Bronx families and advocates rally for parole justice”
April 26, 2021: Bronx Times
“Commentary: In parole decisions, be guided by redemption, not revenge”
April 26, 2021: Rev. Peter Cook, Albany Times-Union
“Survivors’ Parole Justice Town Hall”
April 25, 2021: Media Sanctuary interviews Pedal Miranda and Luz Marquez Benbow, SoundCloud.com
“Parole reform is the new focus in the New York State legislature”
April 22, 2021: Morgan McKay, City of Albany/Spectrum Local News
“In wake of Chauvin verdict, advocates press for racial equity”
April 21, 2021: Edward McKinley, Times Union
“Crime Survivors And Advocacy Groups Working Together For Parole Reform”
April 21, 2021: Media Sanctuary interviews Chelsea Miller, SoundCloud.com
“Democrats, advocates target parole reform next”
April 18, 2021: Kate Lisa, Livingston County News
“Bill would give inmates over 55 bid for parole”
April 17, 2021: Joe Mahoney, Press-Republican
“Local Advocacy Organizations Rally for Parole Justice”
April 15, 2021: Valerie Puma, Fox 40
“Binghamton Advocates Push Parole Reform, Thank Lupardo for Support”
April 15, 2021: Jillian Forstadt,
“Advocates continue call for prison reform”
April 15, 2021: AmNews Staff Reports, New York Amsterdam News
“Push begins for ‘elder parole’ as criminal justice debate heats up”
April 15, 2021, Joe Mahoney, Niagara Gazette
“N.Y. advocates and progressive lawmakers set sights on health care, evictions and reducing jail population”
April 14, 2021: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Parole changes could be next criminal justice push in Albany”
April 14, 2021: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News
“3 issues that could dominate post-budget Albany”
April 13, 2021: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News
“Advocates, lawmakers hope to reform elder parole in 2021”
April 13, 2021: Karen Dewitt, WBFO/National Public Radio
“Advocates push for parole reform, including bill for elderly inmates”
April 12, 2021: WHAM, WHAM/ABC
“Time is now to reform parole”
April 10, 2021: NYS Sen. Gustavo Rivera, Albany Times-Union
“Parole Reforms in State Needed”
April 5, 2021: Jose Saldana, Albany Times-Union
“Opinion: If we truly believe in redemption and second chances, parole should be celebrated”
April 4, 2021: Reginald Dwayne Betts, The Washington Post
“Cuomo’s COVID corrections cruelty: The state has withheld life-saving shots from vulnerable people locked away”
April 1, 2021: Errol Louis, New York Daily News
“Jose Saldaña: The Fight to Vaccinate New Yorkers Behind Bars”
March 31, 2021: Errol Louis, “You Decide, with Errol Louis,” NY1 Spectrum News podcast
“Court Ruling Forces State to Offer COVID-19 Vaccines to All Incarcerated NY’ers”
March 30, 2021: Jeanmarie Evelly, City Limits
“After Half Century In Prison, Elderly Black Panther Should Not Be Left To Die”
March 28, 2021: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“Parole reform advocacy is personal for 26-year-old activist”
March 25, 2021: Tim Williams, WNYC/The Capital Pressroom
“Editorial: Parole needs reform”
March 25, 2021: Times Union Editorial Board, Times Union
“Why Crime Victims Joined the Fight for Parole Justice in New York”
March 22, 2021: Victoria Law, The Appeal
“Parole board’s focus on original crime suggests redemption has limits”
March 21, 2021: Amanda Fries, Edward McKinley, Times Union
“Advocates, NY lawmakers eye parole reform for women inmates”
March 17, 2021: Robert Harding, AuburnPub.com
“Freeing Aging Prisoners with Jose Saldana”
March 12, 2021: What We Don’t Know, Stereotype Studio
“Meanwhile In Albany, Lawmakers Consider An Ambitious Array Of Criminal Justice Reforms”
March 11, 2021: Christopher Robbins, Gothamist
“Parole reforms would be worthwhile”
March 7, 2021: Bernice Mennis, Albany Times-Union
“Release our elderly from prison”
March 7, 2021: Silvia Blumenfeld, The Riverdale Press
“With Cuomo ‘Reeling’ During Budget Season, State Lawmakers Are Poised To Take Power”
March 2, 2021: Christopher Robbins, Gothamist
“Parole reform is badly needed to save New Yorkers’ lives and reunite New York families | Opinion”
March 1, 2021: Michelle Lind, USA Today/lohud.com
“State Legislature moves to restore voting rights to parolees”
February 26, 2021: Rebecca C. Lewis, City & State New York / Criminal Justice
“Show Mercy to Prisoners Who Changed”
February 26, 2021: Barry Nobel, Newsday / Opinion
“Viewpoint: Parole reforms deserve Legislature’s support”
February 25, 2021: Barbara Treen, Times Union
“Parole reform ‘prioritizes fairness over fear’ (your letters)”
February 25, 2021: Yusuf Abdul-Qadir, syracuse.com
“High time to reform N.Y.’s parole system”
February 25, 2021: TeAna Taylor, Daily Gazette
“Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums: Release Aging People in Prison”
February 25, 2021: Daren Jaime, BronxNetTV
“Advocates: NY leaving inmates vulnerable to virus”
February 24, 2021: Joe Mahoney, Press-Republican
“Exigen a Cuomo liberar a presos vulnerables a COVID-19 y plan de vacunacion efectivo en carcéles de NY”
February 24, 2021: Edwin Martinez, El Diario
“New York’s parole system needs a racial justice makeover”
February 23, 2021: Vincent Southerland, Albany Times-Union
“Senate committee approves bills on parole, voting rights for formerly incarcerated people”
February 22, 2021: Edward McKinley, Albany Times-Union
“The People’s Campaign For Parole Justice Targets the Long Island Five to Help End Mass Incarceration and Promote Racial Justice”
February 22, 2021: Cyera Williams, Shades of Long Island
“To combat COVID-19 in Upstate, address the crisis in prisons and jails”
February 19, 2021: Demond Meeks (NYS Assembly Member, District 137), Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
“Advocates calling for parole reform”
February 18, 2021: Amsterdam News
“Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa on New York State’s Parole System”
February 16, 2021: New York Now, WMHT
“Clergy, leaders seek to reform NY prison system for older inmates”
February 16, 2021: Subrina Dhammi, WNYT News Channel 13
“NY’s Elder Parole Bill Offers Aging Inmates ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel'”
February 16, 2021: Maria DiLorenzo, The Crime Report
“Advocates tout Black History Month in push for legislative parole reform”
February 16, 2021: Edward McKinley, Albany Times-Union
“Parole reform advocates pushing for legislation impacting older inmates”
February 16, 2021: WHAM
“Grassroots campaign aims for parole reform amid day of advocacy for Black History Month”
February 16, 2021: Staff, News 12 Long Island/Bronx
“How Many More COVID Deaths Behind Bars Before State Leaders Act?”
February 6, 2021: Rodney Holcombe, Gotham Gazette
“NY prisons begin giving COVID-19 vaccines to older inmates”
February 6, 2021: Robert Harding, Auburn Pub
“New York to Begin Vaccinating Older Prison Inmates”
February 5, 2021: Nick Reisman, City of Albany/Spectrum News
“NY starts to vaccinate inmates 65 and older”
February 5, 2021: News10
“Inmate dies at Malone prison from COVID-19”
February 5, 2021: Kelly O’Brien, WCAX
“Letting People Out of Prison to Avoid COVID Isn’t That Controversial”
February 5, 2021: Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
“Incarcerated person in Malone dies dies of COVID, nearly 150 cases at Franklin Correctional”
February 4, 2021: Emily Russell, North Country Public Radio/ncpr
“New York will vaccinate prison inmates 65 and older after law suit demands all incarcerated people be inoculated”
February 4, 2021: Troy Closson, The New York Times
“Most of county’s COVID cases are in prisons”
February 2, 2021: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“N.Y. prisons see over 5,000 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic: officials”
February 1, 2021: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Families of Fishkill Correctional Facility prisoners: COVID deaths unacceptable”
February 1, 2021: Alicia Barraza, Doug Van Zandt, Cerissa Harrell and Danielle McKenzie, USA TODAY/LoHud
“‘Bring Sundiata home’: The case for freeing elderly political prisoners”
February 1, 2021: Eddie Conway, The Real News
“Incarcerated and at COVID’s mercy: New York must do more for elderly imprisoned people”
February 1, 2021: Cynthia Grant Bowman, New York Daily News
“New York lawmakers to make prison visits amid push for ‘justice roadmap’ and COVID vaccinations”
January 29, 2021: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“600 call for parole justice: ‘Virtual rally’ urges lawmakers for Elderly Parole bill”
January 28, 2021: Stephanie Rivas, News 10/ABC and News 8/RochesterFirst
“New York Democratic Super Majority Could Lead To Parole Reform”
January 27, 2021: Charles Lane, WSHU
“La Legislatura exigida a aprobar reformas de libertad condicional por avance de COVID y la crisis fiscal”
January 27, 2021: David Ramirez, El Diario
“Advocates Across New York State Are Calling for Prison Reform”
January 27, 2021: WIVBF Buffalo
“US Prison System: ‘Elderly Languishing’ interview with RAPP’s Donna Robinson”
January 27, 2021: Vicki Ross/WNY Peace Center, Think Twice Radio
“Jose Saldaña on the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice”
January 26, 2021: John Tarleton, The Indypendent News Hour (via WBAI/FM)
“The High-Risk Group Left Out of New York’s Vaccine Roll-Out”
January 26, 2021: Troy Closson, The New York Times
“Covid-19 outbreaks in state prisons prompt calls, lawsuit for releasing vulnerable inmates”
January 23, 2021: Harold McNeil, Patrick Lakamp, The Buffalo News
“Court Orders State To Vaccinate Older Inmate In Cuomo’s ‘Prison Nursing Home'”
January 21, 2021: Gwynne Hogan, WNYC
“Seven of Eight Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Support Parole and Sentencing Reform”
January 15, 2021: Samar Khurshid, Gotham Gazette
“Inmates at Adirondack Correctional File Lawsuit Claiming ‘Inmate Nursing Home’ Dangerous Amidst Coronavirus”
January 14, 2021: Ryan J. Farrick, Legal Reader
“Activists, lawmakers announce campaign to pass two parole reform bills”
January 14, 2021: Edward McKinley, Albany Times Union
“After rise in inmate COVID deaths, lawmakers push for parole reform”
January 14, 2021: Kate Lisa, HudsonValley360
“COVDI-19 skyrockets by nearly 2000 cases in N.Y. state prisons over the last six weeks”
January 12, 2021: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Lawsuit challenges safety at ‘prison nursing home’ amid coronavirus pandemic”
January 12, 2021: Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, lohud.com
“Prisoners File Lawsuit Against Cuomo Over ‘Prison Nursing Home'”
January 12, 2021: Jordan Lancaster, Daily Caller
“Advocates demand decarceration after prison deaths”
January 11, 2021: Kate Lisa, HudsonValley360
“Three Adirondack prison inmates sue state over COVID conditions”
January 9, 2021: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Nine COVID Deaths, 1,000+ Infections In 3 Weeks: Will NY Do More To Stop The Spread In Prisons?”
January 8, 2021: Gwynne Hogan, WNYC/Gothamist
“New York’s Prison Transfers Increased COVID-19 Risk for Sick, Elderly Men”
January 8, 2021: Alice Speri, The Intercept
“Harlem Woman Pushes NY Prisons To Release Her Aging Husband”
January 7, 2021: Nick Garber, Patch
“Confusion Persists Around State’s Vaccine Plans for Incarcerated New Yorkers”
January 7, 2021: Nicole Javorsky, City Limits
“NY Legislature Starts Session As Pandemic and Budget Troubles Loom”
January 6, 2021: Ryan Tarinelli, NY Law Journal
“Confusion Over When New York Inmates Will Be Vaccinated”
January 6, 2021: Morgan McKay, Spectrum Local News
“Legalized Marijuana in New York: This Could Be the Year”
January 6, 2021: Luis Ferré-Sidurni and Jesse McKinley, The New York Times
“More transparency about COVID rates and vaccines in New York prisons: Justice advocates”
January 5, 2021: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“It’s Time for NYS to Act on Decarceration in Prisons to Curb COVID-19”
January 4, 2021: David Hoos, Susan M. Reverby, Barbara Zeller, & Robert Fullilove, City Limits
“Advocates call for immediate reforms after 4th person dies from COVID-19 in state prison”
January 4, 2020: Thomas O’Neil-White, WBFO
“Seis prisioneros mueren con COVID en cárceles del estado de Nueva York”
January 3, 2021: David Ramirez, El Diario NY
“Two dead from coronavirus at Coxsackie prison”
January 3, 2021: Edward McKinley, Albany Times-Union
“Inmate at Wende Correctional dies of COVID-19 related issues”
January 1, 2021: Danielle Church and Emyle Watkins, WGRZ
“Don’t let them die of COVID in prison”
December 31, 2020: Errol Louis, New York Daily News
“State prison visitations temporarily halted as Covid-19 infections surge”
December 30, 2020: Harold McNeil, The Buffalo News
“Advocates Urge Governor Cuomo to Use His Clemency Powers for Older Prisoners”
December 30, 2020: Shanel Dawson, Spectrum News/NY1
“Sick And Frail As COVID-19 Looms: Medical Parole Still Rare in New York State”
December 30, 2020: Cindy Rodriguez, Gothamist
“‘Forsaken Land:’ City and State Officials Mum on Covid Vaccination Plans for Incarcerated New Yorkers and Correction Officers”
December 29, 2020: Ethan Geringer-Sameth, Gotham Gazette
“Auburn Correctional Facility incarcerated person dies of COVID-19”
December 29, 2020: Robert Harding, AuburnPub
“Sick And Dying In Prison While Covid Looms: Prisoners Ask For Medical Parole But Rarely Get Released”
December 28, 2020: Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC
“TeAna Taylor Continues to Seek Clemency for Her Father”
December 27, 2020: Mercedes Williams, Spectrum Local News
“Incarcerated New Yorkers Ask Governor Cuomo For Clemency”
December 25, 2020: Nine Authors, The Gothamist
“Cuomo grants clemency to 21 people who showed ‘remorse, rehabilitation'”
December 24, 2020: Sarah Polus, The Hill
“Governor, please release our husbands: Loved ones of inmates ask for Christmas mercy”
December 23, 2020: Nawanna Snipe Tucker, Theresa Grady, Emma Pierre, and Roslyn McLeod-Abdullah, New York Daily News
“Prisoners Hoping for Mercy Place Little Faith in Cuomo”
December 23, 2020: Reuven Blau, The City
”Inmate at Clinton Correctionsl in Dannemora dies of COVID-19”
December 22, 2020: Emily Russell, Adirondack Reporter/North Country Public Radio
“Pandemic underscores need to release more elderly prisoners”
December 22, 2020: Editorial Board, The Baltimore Sun
“NY will shutter three state prisons by this spring, leaving some Republican lawmakers up in arms”
December 22, 2020: Denis Slattery and Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Legal Aid Sues State For More COVID-19 Data At Prisons, Where The Pandemic Rages”
December 19, 2020: Gwynne Hogan, WNYC/Gothamist
“Releasing Aging People in Prison: Why It’s Important Now More Than Ever!”
December 17, 2020: Andre Ward, the Fortune Society, Both Sides of the Bars
“Public defender groups lay out legislative agenda”
December 17, 2020: Erin Durkin, Politico
“Jose A. Saldana, Release Aging People in Prison”
December 16, 2020: Ronnie Eldridge, Eldridge & Co./CUNY TV
“True Justice Reform Can’t Ignore People Convicted of Violent Crimes”
December 16, 2020: Yazmine Nichols, Sojourners
“‘We’re out of excuses’: NY progressives want justice reform now that Democrats have supermajority”
December 16, 2020: Tom Dinki, WBFO/NPR
“Amid pandemic, Albany Democrats must support Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole
December 16, 2020: Dino Caroselli, USA Today/lohud.com
“Progressive NY lawmakers prioritize parole reform, legal weed, and end to solitary in ‘Justice Roadmap'”
December 16, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Criminal justice groups put out wish list for state lawmakers”
December 15, 2020: WNYT Staff, WNYT.com
“Downstate progressives push 2021 decarceration of prisons agenda”
December 15, 2020: Kate Lisa, Watertown Daily Times/NNY360
“Caging in COVID: Long-Term and Elder Prisoners”
December 14, 2020: Jerome Wright and Jose Saldana interviewed on Pacifica Radio
“Families of NYS Prison Inmates Claim ‘Lack of Concern’ Due To Rising COVID-19 Cases”
December 12, 2020: Jeannie McBride, City of Buffalo Spectrum News
“Covid-19 is spreading wildly in prisons like mine. We should get the vaccine early.”
December 11, 2020: Christopher Blackwell, The Washington Post
“Rallies demand lower incarceration rates”
December 9, 2020: Natasha Vaughn, Hudson Valley 360
“Candlelight vigil at Governor’s Mansion demands mass clemency”
December 7, 2020: Stephanie Rivas, ABC News 10
“COVID-19 spikes four times higher in prisons and jails; ‘This lack of concern for human lives is calculated'”
December 7, 2020: Eddie Conway, The Real News
“Letter: Prison Action”
December 5, 2020: Marie Edwards, The Highlands Current
“State: Fewer parole decisions amid pandemic part of prison trend”
December 4, 2020: Amanda Fries and Edward McKinley, Albany Times-Union
“The Graying of Mass Incarceration”
December 3, 2020: Victoria Law, The Progressive
“Governor, how about clemency?”
November 28, 2020: Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Advocates urge Cuomo to release older prisoners as COVID surges behind bars”
November 24, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Andrew Cuomo Promised Criminal Justice Reforms, But New York Is Still Waiting”
November 24, 2020: Rebecca McCary, The Appeal
“Grondahl: DA seeks clemency for father, ’60s radical David Gilbert”
November 24, 2020: Paul Grondahl, Albany Times-Union
“Poor People’s Campaign Mourn COVID-19 Deaths, Call for Relief Aid”
November 23, 2020: Jackson Wang, City of Albany/Spectrum News
“While COVID-19 Spreads in NY Prisons, Loved Ones on the Outside Plead With Cuomo for Clemency”
November 23, 2020: Victoria Law, Gothamist
“A ‘broken’ parole process: data shows widened racial bias”
November 22, 2020: Edward McKinley and Amanda Fries, Albany Times-Union
“Queens lawmaker urges Cuomo to release vulnerable incarcerated people amid COVID-19 pandemic”
November 19, 2020: Carlotta Mohamed, QNS
“Criminal justice reformers claim mandate as final election results trickle in”
November 18, 2020: Bill Mahoney, Politico
“Jose Saldana speaks on the roots and legacy of ‘mass incarceration’
November 17, 2020: International Conference, “Towards A Future Without Mass Detention” (10-minutes video via youtube)
“Supreme Court denies request from geriatric prisoners seeking Covid relief”
November 16, 2020: Ariane de Vogue, CNN
“‘The time for meaningful action in Albany is now’: Advocates call on N.Y. lawmakers to find solutions and not wait for D.C.”
November 16, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Nobel laureates and interfaith leaders appeal for clemency of long-imprisoned elder David Gilbert”
November 12, 2020: Ethan Vesely-Flad, Waging Nonviolence
“Only five New Yorkers released from prison through medical parole since the start of the pandemic”
November 10, 2020: Chelsis Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Letter: Protect prison staff, inmates from covid”
November 6, 2020: Thomas Kearny, The Daily Gazette
“Rochester Church Leaders Voice Support for Parolee Accused of Illegally Registering to Vote”
November 4, 2020: Spectrum News Rochester
“That’s Not Gangster, That’s Love”
November 3, 2020: Jose Saldaña, Eddie Conway, susie day: CounterPunch
“COVID-19 Spike in Greene Correctional Facility”
November 3, 2020: Elizabeth Press, Mohawk Magazine/The Sanctuary
“As COVID-19 spikes in state prisons, activists call for more aggressive response by state leaders”
October 28, 2020: Amanda Fries, Albany Time-Union
“As COVID surges in NY prisons, advocates ask Cuomo to release more inmates”
October 28, 2020: Karen Dewitt, North Country Public Radio
“NY May Transfer Vulnerable Inmates From COVID-Stricken Prison, Cuomo Says”
October 28, 2020: Dan Clark, New York Now from wmht
“Upstate New York prison sees record high COVID-19 numbers, with more than 560 active cases”
October 28, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Protest outside Elmira Correctional Facility amid COVID-19 outbreak”
October 27, 2020: George Stockburger, Mikayla Newton, MyTwinTiers.com
“Protest over COVID-19 outbreak at Elmira Correctional Facility”
October 27, 2020: Jeff Murray, Star Gazette
“Protests Ensue After Nearly 25% COVID-19 Rate at Elmira Correctional”
October 27, 2020: Krystal Cole, Spectrum News
“Advocates blast officials on prison virus response”
October 27, 2020: Kate Lisa, HudsonValley360
“Former inmates ask Cuomo to release more prisoners to quell rising COVID-19 spread”
October 27, 2020: Karen DeWitt, WXXI News
“As COVID cases surge in NY prisons, advocates ask Cuomo to release more inmates”
October 27, 2020, Karen DeWitt, NCPR
“Nearly 25% of Elmira Correctional is COVID-19 Positive”
October 27, 2020: Spectrum News Staff, Spectrum News
“Protest over COVID-19 outbreak at Elmira Correctional Facility”
October 27, 2020: Jeff Murray, Elmira Star-Gazette/ithaca journal
“NY tracking coronavirus outbreaks in multiple state prisons”
October 26, 2020: Kevin Tampone, syracuse.com
“COVID-19 outbreak at Elmira prison tops 550 cases. How New York is responding.”
October 26, 2020: David Robinson, The Evening Tribune
“COVID-19 Outbreaks at NYS Prisons Lead to Renewed Calls for Clemency”
October 23, 2020: Dan Clark, New York Now for WMHT
“Experts: To Protect Public From COVID, Decarcerate”
October 23, 2020: Kevin Stacey-Brown, Futurity
“Rally held outside of Greene Correctional Facility over coronavirus outbreak”
October 22, 2020 (update): WNYT Staff, WNYT Albany
“Group wants elderly prisoners paroled at Greene Correctional due to COVID-19”
October 22, 2020: Bill Williams, Hudson Valley 360
“Rally to be held outside of Greene Correctional Facility over COVID-19 outbreak”
October 22, 2020: WNYT Staff, WNYT Albany
“COVID-19 Sweeping Across Two New York State Prisons”
October 21, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum Local News
“County: 11 Clinton inmates positive for COVID-19”
October 21, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Commentary: Passing Elder Parole would be a step toward justice”
October 20, 2020: Barbara Smith, Albany Times-Union
“Will the Manhattan DA race get its own Tiffany Caban?”
October 18, 2020: Jeff Coltin, City & State New York
“Advocates say COVID-19 dangers continue to plague state prisons”
October 15, 2020: Cyril Josh Barker, Amsterdam News
“Brooklyn man who served 47 years in notorious 1973 hostage siege and cop killing suffers fatal stroke during parole hearing”
October 13, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“Another Voice: David Gilbert, other elder inmates deserve clemency”
October 11, 2020: Jerome Wright, Buffalo News
“New case of Covid at federal prison in Ray Brook”
October 10, 2020: Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Elderly inmates push New York state to show mercy during pandemic”
October 1, 2020: Mary Murphy, PIX11
“Opinion: If Black Lives Matter, We Need to Address New York’s Prison Crisis”
September 30, 2020: Jose Saldana, CityLimits
“Illinois State Senate committee focuses on drug penalty reform, elderly parole”
September 30, 2020: Raymon Trancoso, Capitol News Illinois
“Coronavirus in Jails and Prisons”
September 25, 2020: Kelly Davis, The Appeal
“State urged to avoid another surge of virus in jails and prisons”
September 23, 2020: Associated Press, wwnytv.com
“‘Test them all’: Advocates, families urge NY to expand COVID-19 testing in prison”
September 23, 2020: Robert Harding, Auburn Pub
“COVID-19 in Prisons And Jails, Families Who Lost Loved Ones Demand More Releases”
September 22, 2020: Harlem World Magazine
“Panelists say decarceration is key to preventing COVID-19 in prisons”
September 22, 2020: Kate Lisa, NNY360
“Why COVID-19 remains a concern in prisons and jails”
September 22, 2020: Zach Williams, City & State
“New York Urged to Make Fixes To Avoid Another COVID Surge in Prisons and Jails”
September 22, 2020: NBC New York
“N.Y. prison officials defend coronavirus response despite 5% infection rate”
September 22, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Rationing Flu Vaccines for Inmates? Public Hearing Raises Questions”
September 22, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum News
“New York State Prisoners May Have A Hard Time Getting A Flu Shot”
September 22, 2020: Emily Lang, WNYC News
“New York Has An Incarceration Problem. Letting People Go Is The Answer”
September 22, 2020: Jabari Brisport, Gotham Gazette
“Public hearing sheds light on COVID-19 impact on prison facilities, future plans for inmate safety”
September 22, 2020: Staff, News 12
“When Coronavirus Came to Sing Sing ‘We faced our worst fear: dying in prison.'”
September 22, 2020: John J. Lennon, New York Magazine
“‘A New Day’ discusses Prison Brutality”
September 15, 2020: Johanna Fernandez interviews Jose Saldana and others, WBAI (archived radio show; section on COVID-19 and brutality in prisons begins at 0:43:11)
“Calls for Prison Reform Made on Attica Anniversary”
September 14, 2020: Nick Reisman, NY1/Spectrum News
“COVID threatens many N.Y. prisoners; why won’t gov grant more clemency?”
September 12, 2020: Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Letter to the Editor: ‘It is time for us to act, before even more prison sentences turn into death sentences'”
September 9, 2020: Anna Kelles, Ithaca News
“Are Older Inmates Receiving Appropriate Health Care at Adirondack Correctional?”
September 8, 2020: Susan Arbetter, Spectrum News
“COVID-19 could be a death sentence for elderly prisoners”
September 6, 2020: Eddie Conway, Rattling the Bars/The Real News
“Fear and Health Anxiety in NY Prisons”
September 1, 2020: The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC
“Officials fear fiscal woes could spur deeper prison cuts”
August 25, 2020: Joe Mahoney, CNHI News Service
“Men Incarcerated at Cuomo’s Prison Nursing Home: ‘It’s Like They Sent Us To Just Fade Away And Die'”
August 23, 2020: Gwynne Hogan, WNYC
“‘Incarcerated lives matter’: Advocates, family members call for safer conditions for prisoners during pandemic”
August 19, 2020: news12, The Bronx
“A Buffalo Mother Turns To Mutual Aid To Support Imprisoned Women”
August 17, 2020: Autumn Harris, WNYC
“California could cut its prison population in half and free 50,000 people. Amid pandemic, will the state act?”
August 14, 2020: Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle
“Advocates call for steps to release some Florida prisoners as COVID-19 spreads”
August 14, 2020: Grace Toohey, Orlando Sentinel
“Strangers Out There Rallying For You: Prison, Pandemic, and Why Donna Robinson Can’t Relax”
August 12, 2020, Susie Day, Gay City News
“Four New York prisons still see high numbers of coronavirus”
August 10, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Secret Pandemic: Why All Elderly Black Political Prisoners Deserve Immediate Compassionate Release”
August 9, 2020: James C. McIntosh, The Black Star News
“Cancer treatment in WA prisons often too little, too late”
August 5, 2020: Levi Pulkkinen, Crosscut
“Capitol Insider: Advocates say more reforms needed to support people of color”
August 3, 2020: Amanda Fries, Times Union
“Covid-19 Is Turning Prison Terms into Death Sentences”
July 31, 2020: Lauren-Brooke Eisen & Ruth Sangree, Brennan Center for Justice
“Covid-19 still exploding in prisons and threatens the outside world”
July 31, 2020: Barrington M. Salmon, The Final Call
“Only 14 Percent Of State Prison Inmates Have Been Tested For COVID-19, Raising Risks Of Large Outbreak”
July 30, 2020: Gwynne Hogan, Gothamist
“Paraphrase: Correspondence from state prison”
July 29, 2020: Sarah Resnick, n+1 (Issue 37: Transmission)
“Prisons Into Hospices: On Organizing Toward Decarceration”
July 29, 2020: Jose Saldana, Anthony Dixon, Michelle Lewin and Sarah Resnick, n+1 (edited transcript/podcast)
“Why NYS is releasing so few inmates during the pandemic”
July 27, 2020: Natasha Haverty, WBFO/NPR
“Capitol Insider: Advocates shut out of New York Capitol get creative on efforts”
July 27, 2020: Amanda Fries, Times Union
“After Stone Clemency, Activists Rally For Elder Parole”
July 26, 2020: RJ Vogt, Law360
“State faces calls to test all inmates for virus”
July 25, 2020: Joe Mahoney, The Daily Star
“Cuomo faces pressure to test all prison inmates for virus”
July 24, 2020: Joe Mahoney, CNHI News Service/Press Republican
“When violent offenders age into non-violent elders, should they stay in prison?”
July 24, 2020: Natasha Haverty, NCPR
“‘It was a slap in the face’: Prison visits expected to resume in August, but inmate families oppose new NYS guidelines”
July 23, 2020: Chelsea Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“North Country prisons emptying as New York’s inmate population plummets”
July 23, 2020: Emily Russell, NCPR
“N.Y. prison inmates face delays getting COVID test results”
July 22, 2020: Joe Mahoney, The Daily Star
“New York Must Address Racist State Violence from Policing to Jails and Prisons”
July 22, 2020: Latrice Walker, Marvin Mayfield & Cynthia Carter-Young, GothamGazette
“What Can We Expect From NY Lawmakers’ Special Summer Session?”
July 21, 2020: Ross Barkan, Gothamist
“NY Bills on Parole and Solitary the Focus of Overnight Demonstration”
July 21, 2020: Gabe Stern, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
“Activists Just Spent 24 Hours at the New York State Capitol…”
July 21, 2020: ABC 10
“24 Hour Prison Rally”
July 21, 2020: CBS 6
“Activists Urging Lawmakers to Enact Prison Reform–Albany”
July 21, 2020: ABC 10 Good Morning America
“Activists Urging Lawmakers to Enact Prison Reform–Albany”
July 21, 2020: Fox 23
“Protestors in Albany are calling it a 24-hour demonstration at the capitol…”
July 21, 2020: CBS6 News Broadcast
“Protesters in Albany create ‘prison graveyard’ to call for prison reform”
July 20, 2020: WRGB Staff, CBS6
“Prison reform advocates plan 24-hour protest at NYS Capitol”
July 20, 2020: Johan Sheridan, News 10; also various outlets, e.g., LocalSyr.com, Rochester First, WIVB
“The Pandemic Hits New York’s ‘Prison Nursing Home'”
July 17, 2020: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“Black, Brown and Blue in the Bronx: Stories of Pain, Profiling, and Measured Promise”
July 16, 2020: José A. Giralt, Norwood News
“Release inmates to prevent COVID-19 outbreak”
July 11, 2020: Thomas Terrizzi, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Second COVID-19 case at Adirondack Correctional”
July 10, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“We Were Proud to Vote for Police Reforms, Now It’s Time for Prison Reform”
July 9, 2020: Carmen De La Rosa & Gustavo Rivera, GothamGazette
“Advocates call for early release of all inmates at ‘prison nursing home’ in the Adirondacks”
July 8, 2020: Emily Russell, NCPR
“Protestors rally for older inmates’ release from Adirondack facility”
July 8, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Instead of Freeing Elderly Prisoners in Response to Coronavirus, Cuomo Created a Prison Nursing Home Way Upstate”
July 8, 2020: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“Group advocates for release of elderly N.Y. prisoners”
July 7, 2020: Dom Amato, WCAX3
“Douglass speech read at John Brown Farm event”
July 7, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“State moves to release, test prisoners: Adirondack Correctional facility awaits word”
July 6, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Many Deaths at New York State Prisons Are Preventable, Review Finds”
July 5, 2020: Reuben Blau & Carson Kessler, The City
“Black Lives Matter events slated in Keene and Lake Placid on Sunday”
July 3, 2020: Aaron Cerbone and Elizabeth Izzo, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Prison’s 96 new inmates being tested; Advocacy groups call for release of elderly prisoners; so does one’s sister”
July 3, 2020: Aaron Cerbone, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“New safety protocols in place as state readies prisons for inmate visits”
July 3, 2020: Joe Mahoney, Press-Republican
“Activists call for new measures as bail reform is rolled back”
July 2, 2020: Johan Sheridan, News10 Albany
“Advocates criticize bail reform rollbacks, call upon Cuomo and Legislature to pass further reforms”
July 2, 2020: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Coaliciones repudian ‘efectos negativos’ de las enmiendas a Ley de Fianzas en Nueva York”
July 2, 2020: Fernando Martinez, El Diario NY
“Move of older prisoners to Adirondack Correctional ignites fear, outrage among their families”
June 30, 2020: Natasha Haverty, North Country Public Radio
“The Protests Aren’t Stopping Any Time Soon”
June 30, 2020: Bridget Read, The Cut
“NY is failing incarcerated people vulnerable to the coronavirus”
June 29, 2020: Cynthia Grant Bowman, Syracuse.com
“Families fear ‘nursing home’ coronavirus outbreak at upstate NY prison for older inmates”
June 25, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“The Coronavirus Crisis Inside Prisons Won’t Stay Behind Bars”
June 25, 2020: Editorial Board, The New York Times
“Zosia Mamet, Marcia Gay Harden Set for 24-Hour Play Charity Livestream: Viral Monologues will raise money for Release Aging People in Prison”
June 23, 2020: John Blistein, Rolling Stone
“Life and Death At the Stroke of the Governor’s Pen”
June 17, 2020: Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“Cuomo signs rent relief and other coronavirus-related measures passed by N.Y. legislature”
June 17, 2020: Denis Slattery, NY Daily News
“Coronavirus Testing Ramps Up in New York—But Not in State Prisons”
June 16, 2020: Rosa Goldensohn, The City
“Law & Order: The Criminal Injustice System”
June 16, 2020: Jose Saldana interviewed on Gulp Podcast (Jose begins at 15:12)
“Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide”
June 16, 2020: Timothy Williams, Libby Seline and Rebecca Griesbach, The New York Times
“Releasing Our Elders”
June 15, 2020: Jordan Perry interviews Jose Saldana, Justice for New York podcast
“Aging in Prison: A Cruel and Not Unusual Punishment (Part Two)”
June 15, 2020: Kate Ferguson, Real Health Magazine
“‘How long will I need to be in here?’ The ‘Elder Statesman’ dies after contracting COVID-19 in NY prison”
June 11, 2020: Andrew Kornfeld, Meera Shoaib & Ella Goldblum, Yale Daily News
“Why Has COVID-19 Not Led to More Humanitarian Releases?”
June 10, 2020: Dan Berger, Boston Review
“New York State Won’t Grant Temporary Release to Former Black Panther Hospitalized With COVID-19”
June 8, 2020: Victoria Law, The Appeal
“What Police Reforms Advocacy Groups Want”
June 5, 2020: Nick Reisman, City of Albany/New York State of Politics
“An inmate at a federal prison in Brooklyn died after being pepper sprayed when officials say they thought he was a danger to himself”
June 5, 2020: Sarah Al-Arshani, Insider
“Inmate in federal custody dies after incident involving pepper spray”
June 4, 2020: Sonia Moghe, CNN
“George Floyd’s Death Sparks Revived Calls for NY Criminal Justice Reform Bills”
June 4, 2020: Ryan Tarinelli, NY Law Journal
“Brooklyn Inmate Jamel Floyd Dies After Being Pepper-Sprayed by Correctional Officers Inside His Cell”
June 4, 2020: Ewan Palmer, Newsweek
“How COVID-19 is playing out in NYS prisons, through one inmate’s eyes “
June 4, 2020: Natasha Haverty, North Country Public Radio
“Political Pressure? Primary Concerns Over Lawmakers’ Return to Albany”
June 3, 2020: Morgan McKay, Albany Capital Region Spectrum Local News
“‘Governor, let me see my kids before I die’: pressure mounts to release elderly women from prisons”
June 3, 2020: Sam Levin, The Guardian
“Incarcerated Artists are Expressing the Urgency of Clemency During COVID-19”
June 2, 2020: Helen Holmes, Observer
“Progressive legislative candidates push inmate release measures during COVID crisis”
June 1, 2020: David Brand, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Jalil Muntaqim should not die in prison”
June 1, 2020: Hannah Black, The Guardian
“Benjamin Smalls, Jailhouse Lawyer and Prison Reformer, Dies at 72”
May 31, 2020: Glenn Thrush, The New York Times
“What’s worse than a doctor getting cancer behind prison walls? Try COVID.”
May 31, 2020: Susan Reverby, PhD, MedPageToday/KevinMD
“Jalil Muntaqim Has Been In Prison For 50 Years & Now He’s Battling COVID-19”
May 29, 2020: Elly Belle, Refinery29
“Progressive legislative candidates push inmate release measures during COVID crisis”
May 29, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“‘Progressive’ AG Letitia James Blocks Prison Release of Former Black Panther Diagnosed With COVID-19”
May 28, 2020: Asha Bandele, Essence
“Hospitalized With COVID-19, Advocates Fight for Jalil Muntaqim’s Release From Prison”
May 28, 2020: N. Jamiyla Chisholm, Colorlines
“Addicted to Punishing People of Color”
May 28, 2020: Jose Saldana, frankinterviews
“Activists push for Jalil Muntaqim’s release amid COVID-19 contraction”
May 28, 2020: Autodidact 17, Amsterdam News
“New York Appealed to Keep an Elderly Prisoner Behind Bars. Then He Got Coronavirus.”
May 27, 2020: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“Jalil Muntaqim tests positive for COVID-19 and is hospitalized in New York”
May 26, 2020: the Jalil Muntaqim Taskforce, SF Bayview
“Silent protestors demand release of older prisoners”
May 21, 2020: News 12 Westchester/News 12 Bronx
“He Was Waiting for Clemency. Now He’s Fighting Coronavirus.”
May 20, 2020: Brooke Henderson, City Limits
“Those Most in Need of Mercy: Why Melissa Tanis Works to Get Elders Out of Prison”
May 20, 2020: Susie Day, Counterpunch
“Amid crisis, state rethinks incarceration”
May 19, 2020: Melanie Lekocevic, Hudson Valley 360
“‘The wrong call’: Family of parolee who died of coronavirus awaiting release slams Cuomo, NYS prison system”
May 18, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“Isolation, Death, and Grief at a New York Women’s Prison”
May 18, 2020: Lyra Walsh Fuchs, Dissent Magazine and The Appeal
“How long is long enough for a woman serving a life sentence?”
May 15, 2020: Gracie Bonds Staples, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“NY prisons see sharp spike in deaths since coronavirus outbreak, Blacks hit hardest behind bars”
May 14, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“As Coronavirus Spreads Behind Bars, Prisons Release Very Few People”
May 14, 2020: Alice Speri, The Intercept
“Advocates Push New York Governor For More Releases From Jails and Prisons”
May 13, 2020: Bryce Covert, The Appeal
“Relief in Release”
May 13, 2020: Gregg McQueen and Debralee Santos, Manhattan Times
“Let Our People Go”
May 13, 2020: Michelle Alexander, The New York Times
“He Was One of New York’s Most Famous Prisoners. Now He’s One of Its Oldest—and Most Vulnerable”
May 13, 2020: Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
“Coronavirus: Protestan en un centro correcional de Manhattan para pedir la liberacion de presos”
May 13, 2020: Univison
“His death sentence was commuted to life in prison, but now he could die of covid-19”
May 13, 2020: David C. Adams, Univision
“Nursing homes face tall order in COVID-19 testing mandate”
May 12, 2020: Joe Mahoney, Oneonta Daily Star
“Vigils Demand Clemency for Those Threatened by COVID in Prisons”
May 11, 2020: Andrea Sears, Public News Service
“The CDC Must Adopt Decarceration as a Matter of Public Health”
May 8, 2020: Abdul el-Sayed & Thea Sebastian, Filter
“NY prisoner with coronavirus, 72, dies with bid for medical parole pending”
May 7, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Vigil Protesting COVID-19 Prison Deaths To Be Held At NY’s Fishkill Correctional Facility”
March 7, 2020: Black Star News
“Advocates: Inmates make masks they can’t wear”
May 7, 2020: Joe Mahoney, Niagara Gazette
“New York state will give all inmates face masks as COVID-19 death toll rises”
May 7, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Advocates push for more inmate releases amid outbreak”
May 7, 2020: Melanie Lekocevic and Kate Lisa, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
“Congressmembers to governors: ‘Decarcerate now!'”
May 7, 2020: Seven US Congressmembers, San Francisco BayView
“With Over 80 Cases, Fishkill Correctional May Be the Frontline of Coronavirus in New York Prisons”
May 6, 2020: Courtney Gross, Spectrum Central NY News
“Lawmakers Call Out Cuomo and Other Governors For Letting Prisoners Die of COVID-19”
May 6, 2020: Karen Nolan Brown, Reason
“New York Prisoners Are Sewing Masks for Hospitals—But Most Don’t Have Their Own”
May 6, 2020: Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
“I’m keeping San Francisco safer by emptying the jail. My father should be freed too”
May 6, 2020: Chesa Boudin, Los Angeles Times
“Coronavirus in Prison”
May 5, 2020: Mike Gillam of Let It Rip interviews Talib Shakur, RAPP’s Mark Shervington, and Crystal Lowe, whose husband is incarcerated at Rikers Island, cunytv75
“Advocates push for more prison releases amid outbreak”
May 5, 2020: Melanie Lekocevic and Kate Lisa, Columbia-Greene Media/HudsonValley360
“Advocates want vulnerable NY prison inmates released due to COVID-19 risk”
May 5, 2020: Robert Harding, AuburnPub
“Advocates to Cuomo: Test every inmate in New York”
May 5, 2020: Robert Gavin, Albany Times-Union
“Death of a Survivor”
May 3, 2020: Justine Van Der Leun, The New republic
“Growing Old in MD Prisons: Working to Release Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners”
May 2, 2020: Angela Roberts, The Talbot Spy
“Aging in Prison: A Cruel and Not Unusual Punishment”
May 1, 2020: Kate Ferguson, Real Health Magazine
“Emergency: Outbreaks in Prison”
May 1, 2020: Kate Ferguson, Real Health Magazine
“Coronavirus: New York records first female prisoner to die from Covid-19”
May 1, 2020: Gino Spocchia, Independent
“America’s ‘Nursing Homes Behind Bars'”
May 1, 2020: Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report
“Cuomo’s Order to Release Pregnant Women From Prison is a Sham”
May 1, 2020: Angelina Chapin, The Cut
“New York prisons will begin releasing pregnant women”
April 30, 2020: Brendan J. Lyons, Albany Times-Union
“New York Prisons Scramble to Fill Medical Jobs as COVID Cases Rise”
April 30, 2020: Reuven Blau, The City
“The Governor’s Clemency Negligence”
April 29, 2020: Steve Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“Quarantine Could Change How Americans Think of Incarceration”
April 28, 2020: Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic
“‘It shouldn’t be a death sentence’: Columbia faculty members call on Cuomo to grant clemency to high-risk prison population”
April 28, 2020: Abby Melbourne, Columbia Spectator
“Coronavirus spread in Indiana prisons threatens hundreds of elderly inmates”
April 26, 2020: Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star
“Activists call for release of vulnerable prisoners in NYC”
April 25, 2020: Jessica Formoso, Fox 5 NY
“Legal Aid Society calls for clemency for 40 people in NY prisons”
April 24, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Cuomo’s plan to release inmates during coronavirus outbreak would’ve excluded parolee who died weeks before being freed”
April 23, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“Advocates plan vigil for inmate who died in Queens state prison”
April 23, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Advocates rallied outside a Queens prison calling on the governor to release more inmates”
April 23, 2020: Eyewitness News at 5, WABC-NY
“More COVID-19 cases in NY prisons, groups urge Cuomo to release high-risk inmates”
April 23, 2020: Robert Harding, AuburnPub
“A plea for clemency before it’s too late”
April 22, 2020: Dave George, Newsday
“New York Cases Underscores Coronavirus Urgency Around Clemency”
April 22, 2020: Parker Quinlan, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
“Six New York prison inmates have now died after getting the virus”
April 22, 2020: Coronavirus live updates, The New York Times
“Advocacy groups protest at Queensboro prison”
April 22, 2020: Benjamin Fang, Greenpoint Star
“Protesters demand clemency for prisoners fearing COVID-19 spread”
April 21, 2020: Anya Tucker, News10 Albany
“Three times more corrections staff than inmates have tested positive for COVID-19”
April 21, 2020: Jacquie Slater, Newschannel 13
“DOCCS: Inmates in 22 prisons tested positive for COVID-19”
April 21, 2020: Robert Harding, Auburn Pub
“NYS Parole Board faces backlog of up to 400 cases, one commissioner out due to coronavirus”
April 21, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
“Advocates protest outside governor’s mansion”
April 21, 2020: Robert Gavin, Albany Times-Union
“Rally to release ‘at-risk’ prisoners held in Albany”
April 21, 2020: WNYT Staff, WNYT13.com
“Inmate with just weeks left on sentence dies of coronavirus at Queens jail”
April 21, 2020: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News
“Coronavirus: Dutchess, Hudson Valley prisons have most confirmed cases among inmates”
April 21, 2020: Ryan Santistevan, Poughkeepsie Journal
“Cuomo’s Next Task as a National Leader is to Spare Prisoners from COVID-19”
April 20, 2020: Carol Shapiro, City Limits (Shapiro is a former NYS Board of Parole Commissioner)
“Coronavirus: Release of older at-risk prisoners with violent records poses little crime risk”
April 20, 2020: Jared Wadley, Michigan News
“Let The People Go”
April 20, 2020: Joseph Margulies, Boston Review
“The Pandemic Inside the Only Women’s Maximum-Security Prison in New York”
April 20, 2020: Lyra Walsh Fuchs, Dissent
“Lideres comunitarios piden a Cuomo que autorice la liberacion de mas presos vulnerables a coronavirus”
April 20, 2020: Univision
“Inmate dies at Queensboro Correctional Facility, one of five state prison deaths so far”
April 20, 2020: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“I am a prisoner in New York State. I am asking Governor Cuomo for compassion.”
April 19, 2020: Stanley Bellamy, The Guardian
“Come in Your Cars to Stop Death Behind Bars: Protest Preview with Barbara Smith”
April 19, 2020: Elizabeth Smith, MediaSanctuary/WOOC/SoundCloud
“State Prison Virus Cases Mounting as Outside Figures Plateau”
April 19, 2020: Rosa Goldensohn, Ann Choi and Reuven Blau, The City
“Criminal justice advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to do more to protect prisoners”
April 17, 2020: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Coronavirus: New York is releasing aging prisoners as COVID-19 spreads. Is it enough?
April 17, 2020: Jon Campbell, Democrat & Chronicle
“The One Crucial Step Gov. Cuomo Hasn’t Taken That Could Save Thousands of Lives”
April 17, 2020: Sean Kyler, HufPost
“Coronavirus: Prison inmates sue New York for early release over COVID-19 fears”
April 17, 2020: Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News
“Grant clemency to save N.Y. inmates”
April 16, 2020: Jose Saldana, Albany TimesUnion
“If Ever There Were a Time for Clemency, It’s Now”
April 15, 2020: Steven Zeidman, CityLimits
“Joaquin Phoenix urges COVID-19 clemency for New York prisoners: ‘No one deserves to die'”
April 15, 2020: Douglas Ernst, Washington Times
“NJ’s Emergency Release of Prisoners Does Not Go Far Enough”
April 16, 2020: Catherine Stanford, NJSpotlight
“The Coronavirus Thread: New Calls for Action to Protect Inmates as Death Rate Inches Up”
April 15, 2020: Adina Berliant, Jeanmarie Evelly, Sadef Ali Kully, Jarrett Murphy and Daniel Parra, CityLimits
“Release many more people from prison now, Gov. Cuomo”
April 15, 2020: Paul Skip Laisure, Robert Dean, Christina A. Swarns, Justine Luongo, Tammy Feman and Edward E. Smith, New York Daily News
“Certain NY Prisoners Will See Release Amid Pandemic, Top Cuomo Aide Says”
April 15, 2020: Ryan Tarinelli, New York Law Journal/law.com
“Compassionate release of inmates a moral imperative”
April 15, 2020: Former District Attorney Matthew T. Mangino, The Times Online (PA)
“NYS Prisons: Older inmates with three months left may be released early”
April 15, 2020: Emily Russell, North Country Public Radio/NPR
“Joaquin Phoenix, John Legend urge Cuomo to release NY prisoners amid coronavirus”
April 15, 2020: Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com
“Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for ‘Nonviolent Offenders'”
April 14, 2020: Micah Herskind, Medium
“John Legend Calls on Gov. Cuomo to Stop Coronavirus Spread in Prisons”
April 14, 2020: Heran Mamo, Billboard
“Demonstrators urge release of LIC prison inmates nearing end of sentences”
April 14, 2020: David Brand, Queens Eagle
“Advocates Call For Release Of LIC Prisoners Amid Pandemic”
April 14, 2020: Maya Kaufman, Patch
“I’m Facing the Coronavirus Behind Bars”
April 14, 2020: John Lennon, The Atlantic
“With Coronavirus Cases Rising, Prison Inmates Nearing Release Hope To Get Out Before They Get Sick”
April 14, 2020: Sydney Pereira, Gothamist
“NYS Prisons: Hundreds of staff and inmates contract COVID-19, advocates call for early release of inmates”
April 14, 2020: Emily Russell, North Country Public Radio/NPR
“HIV Prison Activists Are Leading a Freedom Movement in the Face of COVID-19”
April 14, 2020: Emily Hobson and Laura McTighe, Truthout
“Advocates Urge Cuomo to Grant Clemencies Before Prison Outbreak Worsens”
April 13, 2020: Harron Walker, Vice
“It’s Time To Start Releasing Some Prisoners With Violent Records”
April 13, 2020: J.J. Prescott, Benjamin Pyle, and Sonja Starr, Slate
“Advocates Urge Cuomo To Release Vulnerable Inmates inNew York”
April 13, 2020: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News
“Advocates Cite Data on Coronavirus in NY Prisons, As They Call for Clemency”
April 12, 2020: Spectrum News Capital Region
“NY parole board denies PBA claim it ‘illegally’ released man who killed cop in 1984 due to caronavirus pandemic”
April 12, 2020: Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News
“Some advocates are questioning the state prison system’s new COVID-19 web page”
April 11, 2020: WINS-AM
“Why Gov. Ducey should release ill or elderly prisonrs for our and their safety”
April 11, 2020: Lillian Copess, Arizona Daily Star
“#LetThemGo: Prison release advocates shift online amid pandemic”
April 10, 2020: Samira Sadeque, dailydot
“Free violent offenders from prison early too. The population is much bigger, and much less threatening, than we believe.”
April 10, 2020: John Pfaff, The Washington Post
“I’m a doctor on Rikers Island. My patients shouldn’t have to die in jail.”
April 10, 2020: Rachael Bedard, The Washington Post
“Governors Are Too Cowardly To Solve The Coronavirus Outbreak In Prisons”
April 10, 2020: Angelina Chapin, HuffPost
“N.J. should now release state prison inmates as coronavirus spreads, public defender says”
April 10, 2020: S.P. Sullivan and Blake Nelson, NJ Advance Media
“Groups Renew Calls for Governor Cuomo to Grant Emergency Clemencies”
April 9, 2020: Murcel Rahimi, The Davis Vanguard
“Gov. J.B. Pritzker quietly grants clemency requests to Illinois prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic, including one released Thursday who had been serving life”
April 9, 2020: Cristy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune
“ACLU, others call for urgent prison and jail releases in response to COVID-19”
April 9, 2020: Frank Green, Richmond Times-Dispatch
“‘It gets more frightening’: As coronavirus surges in prisons, families of elderly inmates wait in fear”
April 8, 2020: Christine Phillips, USA Today
“Chicago’s Jail Is Top U.S. Hot Spot as Virus Spreads Behind Bars”
April 8, 2020: Timothy Williams and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times
“Serious Concern About the Spread of COVID-19 Within NYS Criminal Justice System”
April 8, 2020: Sun Staff, Genesee Sun
“Push To Release Inmates Intensifies After Rikers Death”
April 8, 2020: Nick Reisman, State of Politics
“More COVID-19 cases in NY prisons, groups urge Cuomo to release high-risk inmates”
April 8, 2020: Robert Harding, AuburnPub
“Decarceration as strategy to support prisoners during COVID-19 pandemic”
April 7, 2020: Jennifer Gaddy, Tennessean/USA Today
“Prison advocates want Cuomo to do more to protect inmates from coronavirus”
April 7, 2020: Robert Gavin, Albany Times-Union
“Nursing Homes at at center of virus deaths”
April 7, 2020: Joe Mahoney, Oneonta Daily Star
“‘Leaving Us Here To Die’: Prisoners Plea For Release, Protection Amid Skyrocketing Infection Rates”
April 6, 2020: Amy Goodman interviews Jose Saldana and Jose Diaz, Democracy Now!
“New York Retreats on Bail Reform Amid Coronavirus Outbreak”
April 6, 2020: Bryce Covert, The Appeal
“Man With Coronavirus Dies While Jailed For Parole Violation on Rikers Island”
April 6, 2020: Sydney Pereira, Gothamist
“Calls for Clemency at Vigil for COVID-19 Death at Sing Sing”
April 5, 2020: Brooke Henderson, CityLimits
“Elderly inmates in Illinois at high risk for coronavirus”
April 5, 2020: Emily Hoerner and Jonah Newman, Journal Gazette-Times Courier
“Virus spread behind bars heightens anxiety for kind of asthmatic inmates”
April 5, 2020: Joe Mahoney, Oneonta Daily Star
“COVID-19 Is Turning Prisons Into ‘Kill-Boxes'”
April 5, 2020: James Kilgore, Truthout
“Coronavirus live blog: Saturday, April 4, 2020”
April 4, 2020: NCPR, North Country Public Radio
“New Call for Clemency for Older and Vulnerable People Behind Bars During the Outbreak”
April 3, 2020: News 12 Westchester
“Over 150 Health Experts Urge Cuomo to Release Prisoners at Risk for COVID-19”
April 3, 2020: Trenton Straube, POZ
“State Prisoners Punished for Wearing Masks as City Jails OK Them”
April 3, 2020: Reuven Blau, The City
“Advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to grant clemencies after first prison COVID-19 death”
April 3, 2020: Tania Savayan, The Journal News/LoHud
“Coronavirus prompts 150 correctional health experts, medical professionals to request clemencies from Gov. Cuomo”
April 2, 2020: Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Daily News
AND READ THE LETTER HERE
“First New York prisoner with coronavirus dies at Sing Sing”
April 2, 2020: Andrew Denney, New York Post
“A Sing Sing inmate is the first state prisoner to die after getting the flu”
April 2, 2020: Coronavirus Updates, The New York Times (scroll down for Sing Sing piece)
“Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations—Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons”
April 2, 2020: Matthew J. Akiyama, M.D., Anne C. Spaulding, M.D., and Joisah D. Rich, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine
“Andrew Cuomo Is Trash”
April 2, 2020: Anne Branigan, The Root
“Alabama prisons hold more than 1,100 older people at greater COVID-19 risk”
April 2, 2020: Kathryn Casteel and Will Tucker, SPLCenter
“Family of Imprisoned New Yorkers Call on Governor For Clemency”
April 1, 2020: Eddie Conway, The Real News Network
“Death Camps in the Making: New York’s Prisons During a Time of Pandemic”
April 1, 2020: Frances Madeson, Counterpunch
“Death At Sing Sing Prison Spreads Coronavirus Panic Among Those Inside”
April 1, 2020: Lisa Armstrong, HuffPost
“Coalition asks governor to grant clemency to older prison inmates”
March 31, 2020: Alex Crichton, WBFO/NPR
(also appeared on WXXI News as “Coalition: Free older inmates and those vulnerable to COVID-19”)
“Grondhal: Brother fights for brother’s early prison release amid COVID-19 fears”
March 31, 2020: Paul Grondhal, Albany Times-Union
“Clemency Sought as COVID Hits State Prisons”
March 31, 2020: Adina Berliant, Jeanmarie Evelly, Sadef Ali Kully, Jarrett Murphy and Daniel Parra, City Limits
“Movement for Black Lives Releases Policy Demands in Response to COVID-19”
March 31, 2020: Breanna Edwards, Essence
“Top doctor at Rikers Island calls the jail ‘a public health disaster unfolding before our eyes'”
March 31, 2020: Meagan Flynn, Washington Post via MSN
“To flatten the curve, free some prisoners. Please.”
March 31, 2020: Piper Kerman, The Washington Post
“Possible COVID Death in in NY Prison Sparks Call for Releases”
March 30, 2020: Jack Queen, Law360
“Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison”
March 30, 2020: Mary Bassett, Eric Gonzalez and Darren Walker, The New York Times
“Exigen a Cuomo dar clemencia a miles de presos en NY en riesgo por coronavirus”
March 30, 2020: Ramon Frisneda, El Diario
“Will New York Governor Cuomo Release Thousands of Aging Prisoners Before COVID-19 Kills Them?”
March 30, 2020: Tim Murphy, TheBody
“Ante crisis de coronavirus, familiares y otros exigen liberacion de presos vulnerables”
March 30, 2020: Julio Cesar Garcia, NY1 Noticias
“Advocates call on Gov. Cuomo to put changes to bail reform on hold”
March 30, 2020: Sarah Darmanjian, News 10 Albany
“New York Prisons Called ‘Death Camps’ in the Making”
March 30, 2020: Frances Madeson, The Progressive (also appeared inPressenza International Press Agency)
“Elderly inmates are at high risk for coronavirus. Why are there so many of them in Illinois’s prisons?
March 30, 2020: Emily Hoerner and Josh Newman, Injustice Watch
“‘Jails Are Petri Dishes’: Inmates Freed as the Virus Spreads Behind Bars”
March 30, 2020: Timothy Williams, Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum, The New York Times
“Digital rallies call for release of select inmates to prevent virus spread”
March 30, 2020: Macy Egeland and Eileen Lehpalmer, News 12 Long Island
“Families of state prisoners plead with Cuomo to relieve crowded conditions and stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus”
March 30, 2020: Nathan Riley, Legalize
“NY to release up to 1,100 low-level parole violators from jails to slow coronavirus spread”
March 30, 2020: Sarah Taddeo, Record Online/Gannett New York
“Think bigger on clemencies: Coronavirus, prisons and public health”
March 28, 2020: Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Locked up: No masks, sanitizer as virus spreads behind bars”
March 28, 2020: Robin McDowell and Margie Mason, Associated Press
“How Bill Barr’s COVID-19 Prisoner Release Plan Could Favor White People”
March 28, 2020: Eli Hager, The Marshall Project
“Coronavirus behind bars: Prisoners being freed to slow spread in ‘virus vectors'”
March 28, 2020: Tim Fitzsimmons, NBC News
“Prisons and public health: Gov. Cuomo must let out thousands or many will die”
March 27, 2020: Susan Reverby, New York Daily News
“A Public Health Doctor and Head of Corrections Agree: We Must Immediately Release People From Jails and Prisons”
March 27, 2020: Brie Williams, Leann Bertsch, The Appeal
“New York to Release Up to 1,100 People Jailed on Parole Violatins, Officials Say”
March 27, 2020: Jane Wester and Ryan Tarinelli, New York Law Journal
“New York to Release 1,100 inmates being held on parole violations”
March 27, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“NY to release 1,100 parole violators as coronavirus spreads”
March 27, 2020: Brendan J. Lyons, Albany Times-Union
“Our Leaders Have the Power to Release People in Prison. Now They Must Use It.”
March 27, 2020: Rachel Barkow, The Appeal
“Activists Demand Release of Aging Prisoners as Coronavirus Spreads”
March 27, 2020: Headlines, Democracy Now!
“Elderly inmates at risk as pandemic also impacts prisons”
March 26, 2020: David Montgomery, PBS
“‘He Will Die’: Prisoners’ Family Members Are Petrified As Coronavirus Spreads”
March 26, 2020: Angelina Chapin, HuffPost
“‘Prisons are bacteria factories’; elderly most at risk”
March 26, 2020: David Montgomery, Dallas News
“How to Help Incarcerated People During COVID-19”
March 26, 2020: Jael Goldfine, Paper Magazine
“Chesa Boudin On His Incarcerated Father and the Threat of the Coronavirus in Prisons”
March 26, 2020: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“AOC urges Cuomo and de Blasio to protect NY’s elderly prisoners from coronavirus”
March 25, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“What Cuomo Hasn’t Done”
March 25, 2020: David Leonhardt, The New York Times
“COVID-19 in Rikers”
March 24, 2020: Brian Lehrer interviews Jose Saldana and Dr. Robert Cohen, WNYC
“‘It Spreads Like Wildfire’: COVID-19 Comes to New York’s Prisons”
March 24, 2020: Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker
“Advocates and Lawmakers Urge Trump Administration to Release Elderly Inmates Vulnerable to Coronavirus”
March 24, 2020: C.J Ciaramella, Reason
“Coronavirus in NYS Prisons”
March 23, 2020: Dr. Bob Lee Interviews Jose Saldana, Open BxRx/Bronxnet
“The Coronavirus Is Hitting US Prisons, And Advocates Fear Sick Inmates Will Be Afraid To Get Treatment”
March 23, 2020: Salvador Hernandez, Buzzfeed
“We Are Sitting Ducks”
March 23, 2020: Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents
“Fighting the Cuomo Virus to Free Incarcerated Elders”
March 23, 2020: Susie Day, Counterpunch
“38 positive for coronavirus in NYC jails, including Rikers”
March 23, 2020: Michael Rezendes and Robin McDowell, Associated Press (the same article appeared on 3/22 with bylines Robin McDowell and Michael Balsamo)
“Advocates Demand Help for Vulnerable Prisoner, Homeless Folks”
March 23, 2020: Matt Tracy, Gay City News
“Massachusetts COVID-19 Decarceration Bill Could Protect Us All”
March 21, 2020: Jean Trounstine, digboston
“Coronavirus risk looms large for America’s elderly and sick prison population”
March 20, 2020: Hope Corrigan, Quartz
“Little Relief For Jails’ Most Vulnerable As Pandemic Grows”
March 20, 2020: Reuven Blau and Rosa Goldensohn, The City
“A Rikers Island Doctor Speaks Out to Save Her Elderly Patients From the Coronavirus”
March 20, 2020: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“Rising calls to free incarcerated New Yorkers”
March 20, 2020: Zach Williams, City & State New York
“Advocates Want Older Inmates Released Amid Pandemic”
March 19, 2020: Jamal Andress, Newsy
“If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed”
March 19, 2020: Victoria Law, Truthout
“The coronavirus: A jail or prison sentence should not be a death sentence”
March 19, 2020: Lois Ahrens, Daily Hampshire Gazette
“This Chart Shows Why The Prison Population Is So Vulnerable To COVID-19”
March 19, 2020: Weihua Li and Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project
“Pressley Calls For Release of Elderly Prisoners With Underlying Conditions, Other Reforms Amid COVID-19 Outbreak”
March 19, 2020: Arjun Singh, WGBH
“Coronavirus leads some overseas prisons to release inmates; Rikers and other US prisons consider the same”
March 18, 2020: Bradford Betz, Fox News
“Clemency is needed for incarcerated New Yorkers vulnerable to coronavirus”
March 18, 2020: Jose Saldana, USA Today Network/LoHud
“Tolman and Harris: Coronavirus crisis requires this action be taken for elderly prison inmates”
March 18, 2020: Brett L. Tolman and Holly Harris, Fox News
“ACLU calls for release of prisoners at ‘heightened risk’ from virus”
March 18, 2020: WCAX (Vermont)
“NYS Legislature Passes Quarantine Sick Leave”
March 18, 2020: Karen DeWitt, WAMC
“Coronavirus has arrived at Rikers Island: Inside New York City jails, where the pandemic is about to explode”
March 18, 2020: Nick Pinto, The Intercept
“Activists Are Not Happy With New York’s Plan to Use Prison Labor to Make Hand Sanitizer”
March 17, 2020: Elly Belle, Alure
“Employee at Sing Sing state prison tests positive for coronavirus, raising fears in system”
March 17, 2020: Joseph Spector, LoHud
“We must release prisoners to lessen the spread of coronavirus”
March 17, 2020: Josiah Rich, Scott Allen and Mavis Nimoh, The Washington Post
“Coronavirus and NYS’s Prison Population”
March 17, 2020: Tim Williams interviews Jose Saldana, Capitol Pressroom/WCNY
“Will Rikers Island Free Inmates Because of the Coronavirus?”
March 17, 2020: James D. Walsh, New York Magazine
“Applauding Release of Prisoners in Ohio Due to Coronavirus Threat, ACLU Calls on Officials Nationwide to Do the Same”
March 16, 2020:Julia Conley, Common Dreams
“An Epicenter of the Pandemic Will Be Jails and Prisons, if Inaction Continues”
March 16, 2020: Amanda Klonsky, The New York Times
“The Only Way To Protect Elderly Prisoners From Coronavirus Is To Release Them”
March 16, 2020: Jenavieve Hatch, Huff Post
“DOCCS: Visitation suspended at NYS prisons”
March 15, 2020: Robert Harding, Auburn Pub
“Visitations suspended at New York prisons”
March 14, 2020: Brendan J. Lyons, Albany Times Union
“Advocates Respond to Governor Cuomo’s Ban on Prison Visits in Wake of Coronavirus”
March 14, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison; Parole Preparation Project; VOCAL-NY; Worth Rises; Citizen Action of NY; #HALTsolitary Campaign; Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club; Press Statement
“New York has its first coronavirus deaths.”
March 14, 2020: Jon Campbell, recordonline
“New York has its first coronavirus deaths. Here are the details”
March 14, 2020: Jon Campbell, LoHud
“NY Department of Corrections suspends visits statewide until April 11”
March 14, 2020: Dean Balsamini and Julia Marsh, New York Post
“Release People From Jail to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe Behind Bars”
March 13, 2020: Jose Saldana, Komrade Z, and Nadja Guyot, Shadowproof
“Prisons and Jails Worry About Becoming Coronavirus ‘Incubators'”
March 13, 2020: Martin Kaste, NPR
“Citing Coronavirus, Advocates Call for Release of Aging and Medically Vulnerable Inmates”
March 13, 2020: Jane Wester, New York Law Journal
“Inmates Helping to Restock State’s Depleted Supply of Hand Sanitizer”
March 13, 2020: Richard Khavkine, The Chief
“Where Hand Sanitizer is Contraband: Are NY Prisons Ready for Coronavirus?”
March 12, 2020: Christopher Robbins, The Gothamist
“Calls Grow For Older Inmates, At High Risk of Coronavirus, to Be Released”
March 12, 2020: Amber Guerguerian, The Indypendent
“Activists Push For Vulnerable Prisoners To Be Released As Coronavirus Spreads”
March 11, 2020: Steve Burns, WCBS Radio
“Pressure Builds on New York Governor to Address Coronavirus Impact on Prisoners”
March 11, 2020: Bryce Covert, The Appeal
“Prisoners’ rights advocates condemn Cuomo’s use of inmate labor amid coronavirus outbreak”
March 10, 2020: Amanda Fries, Albany Times Union
“Advocates oppose inmate-made hand sanitizer program”
March 10, 2020: Corina Cappablanca, WIVB4 News
“Advocates Rally Against Inmates Making Hand Sanitizer for Low Wages”
March 10, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum News
“Inmate Advocates Urge Wage Boost for Sanitizer Makers”
March 10, 2020: Ryan Tarinelli, New York Law Journal
(Note: story follows article on New Rochelle courts)
“New York to Pay Incarcerated Workers 65 Cents an Hour to Make Hand Sanitizer to Fight Coronavirus”
March 10, 2o2o: Tamar Sarai Davis, Prism/Daily Kos
“Changing Perception, Changing the Law”
March 3, 2020: Jean Trounstine, DigBoston
“Cuomo, miserly on clemencies: Thousands of elderly New Yorkers who pose no risk are locked in state prison”
February 27, 2020: Errol Louis, New York Daily News
“Life Sentences Lock Away Too Many People and Too Much Potential”
February 26, 2020: Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal
“Is Now the Time for Parole Reform in New York?”
February 21, 2020: NY Senator Gustavo Rivera on WCBS 880 In Depth
“Justice in the Balance”
February 20, 2020: Will Astor, Rochester Beacon
“How to lower prison costs? Secretary advises medical parole”
February 20, 2020: Katie Meyer, WITF
“Let Bernie Madoff, and Many More, Out of Prison”
February 17, 2020: Colleen P. Erin, The New York Times
“Redemption is possible”
February 15, 2020: Robert Ehrenberg, Albany Times Union
“New York’s elderly prisoners are asking for a second chance”
February 14, 2020: Jean Lee, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Assembly Update with NYS Assemblyman Philip Ramos, 6th Assembly District, Featuring New Hour”
February 13, 2020: Phil Ramos interviews New Hour’s Serena Liguori and Danielle Donaphin
“Elderly prisoners could become eligible for parole hearings under new law”
February 13, 2020: Madison Czopek, Missourian
“Las leyes de libertad bajo fianza no se tocan”
February 12, 2020: David Ramirez, El Diario
“Bail reform supporters rally at state capital to protect law, end mass criminalization”
February 12, 2020: WRGB Staff, WRGB 6News Albany (text, not video)
“Sen. May takes principled stance on criminal justice reform”
February 12, 2020: Maurice Brown, Syracuse.com (letters)
“In Presidential Campaign, Progressive Democrats’ Death Penalty Stances Fall Short”
February 11, 2020: Jose Saldana, Gotham Gazette
“Elder parole law is needed to give second chances”
February 9, 2020: Donna Robinson, The Buffalo News
“Donna Robinson of RAPP on Elder Parole Bill”
January 28, 2020: Mike Baggerman, WBEN Radio
“‘Elder Parole’ bill in Albany receives criticism”
January 28, 2020: Mike Baggerman, WBEN Radio
“Democrats Should Stop Saying Some People Should Die in Prison”
January 22, 2020: Ben Miller and Daniel S. Harawa, Slate
“DSA challengers push state legislature on criminal justice reform”
January 22, 2020: Emma Whitford and David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Bill to let inmates be eligible for parole at age 55 draws concerns”
January 22, 2020: Don Lehman, Post-Star
“Senate committee to consider early release for inmates legislation today”
January 22, 2020: Sarah Mueller, Florida Politics
“Fast-Tracking Second Chance: Increasing Odds for Parole on Life Sentences”
January 16, 2020: Jacqueline Lantsman, Houston Institute/Medium
“The Next Step in Prison Reform: Release Aging Inmates?”
January 15, 2020: TCR Staff, The Crime Report
“Will Albany Give Older NY Prisoners A Chance At Freedom?”
January 15, 2020: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“Push to End Lifetime Prison Sentences in New York”
January 14, 2020: Morgan McKay, Spectrum News
“Parole reform is the next criminal justice frontier”
January 14, 2020: Gustavo Rivera, New York Daily News
“Pursuing More Justice: Elder Parole is Good for Communities Across New York”
January 13, 2020: Carmen De La Rosa, Gotham Gazette
“Quaker Org Joins mobilization Against Death By Incarceration”
January 13, 2020: American Friends Service Committee
“Most States Saw Prison Reforms in 2019, But Incarceration Rates Remain High”
January 11, 2020: Victoria Law, Truthout
“Capitol Pressroom: On Friday, Governor Cuomo announced he had used his clemency powers to either pardon or commute the sentences of eleven New Yorkers. We heard from advocates on how the process works and the reforms they would like to see”
January 8, 2020: Tim Williams, WNYC
“Gov. Cuomo grants clemency to abused upstate woman convicted of murder as advocates call for more action”
January 3, 2020: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Advocates Slam Gov. Cuomo For Granting Handful of Clemencies After Not Issuing A Single Clemency to New Yorkers in Prison in 2019”
January 3, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project (press statement)
“What to look for in criminal justice reform in New York in 2020”
January 1, 2020: Noah Goldberg and David Brand, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Thomas Kearney talking about Release Aging People in Prison”
December 31, 2019: Hudson Mohawk Magazine, MediaSanctuary on Soundcloud
“Interviews With Five Aging NY State Prisoners Hoping for Clemency: ‘Who I Am Now Is Not Who I Was'”
December 24, 2019: Stephanie Chukwuma, Trone Dowd, Jeffery Harrell, Brenda Léon, Hannah Miller, Rosemary Misdary, Rachel Rippetoe, Maria Robins-Somerville, Sean Sanders, and Annie Todd, The Gothamist
“Ailing Inmate Pins Clemency Hopes on Cuomo”
December 23, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“Clemency advocates call on Cuomo to release long-serving inmates”
December 21, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“They’ve been through New York’s parole system. That’s why they want to change it.”
December 20, 2019: Noah Goldberg, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“New Yorkers Freed From Prison Urge Cuomo To Set More Free—Before It’s Too Late”
December 20, 2019: Victoria Law, The Gothamist
“‘Invest in us, invest in the bus’: Children of the incarcerated call for the return of prison visitation program”
December 20, 2019: Paul Frangipane, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“Freedom: Letter to the Editor, “Re: ‘Tis the Season for Clemency'”
December 20, 2019: Elizabeth Rapaport, New York Daily News
“Issues to Watch in the 2020 Legislative Session in Albany”
December 18, 2019: Samar Khurshid, Gotham Gazette
“Tis the season for clemency: Gov. Cuomo should let more New Yorkers out of prison now”
December 17, 2019: Steven Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Elected Officials, Prison Reform Advocates, Host Community Forum”
December 11, 2019: Parker E. Quinlan, Mott Haven Herald
“Louisiana’s life without parole sentencing the nation’s highest—and some say that should change”
December 7, 2019: Lea Skene, The Advocate
“Advocacy leaders push for prison reform in the Bronx”
December 3, 2019: News 12 the Bronx
“NYC legal defense groups want additional criminal justice reforms from Albany”
December 2, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Parole reform aims to put a stop to a ‘culture of punishment’
November 27, 2019: Noah Goldberg, The Brooklyn Eagle
“Rally for Parole Reform”
November 26, 2019: Lewis Dodley, NY1
“NYC advocates push for parole reform in the new year”
November 26, 2019: Brittany Kriegstein and Chelsia Rose Marcus, The Daily News
“How Old Is Too Old for Prison?”
November 26, 2019: Edward McClelland, Chicago Politics & City Life
“Prepping for Parole”
November 25, 2019: Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
“Prison health-care costs are higher than ever in Texas. Many point to an aging prison population.”
November 25, 2019: Davis Rich, The Texas Tribune
“We need a compassionate release program for older inmates”
November 25, 2019: Harley Farrell (letter to the editor), Attelboro, MA Sun-Chronicle
“Yonkers Town Hall Meeting Addresses Mass Incarceration”
November 22-29, 2019: Yonkers Rising (pp 1 and 8)
“Norwood Man, Imprisoned for 38 Years, Becomes the Face for Early Release”
November 21, 2019: Michael Turay, Norwood News
“Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project Call for Fair & Timely Parole Act on One Year Anniversary of Mujahid Farid’s Death”
November 20, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project
“What does death by incarceration look like in Pennsylvania? These elderly, disabled men housed in a state prison.”
November 20, 2019: Joshua Vaughn, The Appeal
“On the Count with RAPP and Parole Preparation Project”
November 9, 2019: Jose Saldana and Anthony Dixon talk to Steven (Humble) Mangual and Andre (Imani) Ward (audio; interview of Jose and Anthony starts close to a half hour into the show)
“Close Attica—and Build No New Prisons”
November 7, 2019: Steven Zeidman, Gotham Gazette
“Why is Maryland keeping an 85-year-old man and four other octogenarians in prison?”
November 5, 2019: Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun
“Life without parole needs to go”
November 4, 2019: Lois Ahrens, Guest Columnist, Daily Hampshire Gazette
“Life Without Parole Sentences Rob Taxpayers and Pervert Justice”
November 1, 2019: Linn Washington, Counterpunch
“Push Begins For Release of Older Prison Inmates”
October 24, 2019: Nick Reisman, State of Politics/Spectrum News
“Brooklyn DA Gonzalez pushes for law to review and reduce long-term sentences”
October 23, 2019: Erin Durkin, Politico
“Florida’s Longest-Serving Inmates: They Get Older, Sicker, and More Well-Behaved”
October 17, 2019: Deirdre Funcheon, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
“Baker administration tying up medical parole program”
October 17, 2019: Margaret Monsell, Commonwealth
“11 Reasons Why De Blasio’s $11 Billion Jails Plan Will Fail”
October 15, 2019: Ngozi Alston, Marlene Nava Ramos, and Brittany Williams, City Limits
“Fighting and Dying for Dignity in Prison”
October 3, 2019: Claire Stottlemeyer, The Gotham Gazette
“Elder parole is overdue”
September 20, 2019: Jose Saldana, Albany Times-Union
“Convicted of a Deadly Crime as a Teen, He Worked for Decades to Get a Second Chance at Life”
September 16, 2019: Aaron Morrison, The Appeal
“You Say You Want A Revolution: A Prison Letter To Yoko Ono”
September 12, 2019: Susie Day, Gay City News
“The graying of America’s prisons: ‘When is enough enough?'”
September 4, 2019: Eileen Rivers, USA Today
“Libertad o muerte: el drama de los presos mayores en Nueva York”
03 de Septiembre 2019: Edwin Martinez, El Diario
“Death by incarceration is punishment with no room for redemption”
September 3, 2019: Stanley Bellamy, Queens Daily Eagle
“More New Yorkers serving life in prison are from Brooklyn than anywhere else in the city. Reformers are calling for relief”
August 29, 2019: Noah Goldberg, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“The Growing Push for Politicians to #VisitAPrison”
August 29, 2019: Stephanie Wykstra, The Progressive
“Aging in Prison: The Forgotten Plight of Women Behind Bars”
August 28, 2019: Cassie M. Chew, The Crime Report
“Depraved Indifference and Second Look Sentencing”
August 27, 2019: Steven Zeidman, The Gotham Gazette
“Elders in Prison:” Jose Saldana and Donna Robinson of RAPP on Capitol Pressroom
August 26, 2019: Tim Williams, Capitol Pressroom (audio)
“Longest-serving inmate’s death spurs movement for elder parole”
August 23, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Activists Demand Parole Reform As They Mark Passing of NY’s Longest-Serving Woman Prisoner”
August 23, 2019: Democracy Now! WATCH THE SEGMENT HERE
“Death Of NY’s Longest-Serving Female Prisoner Intensifies Calls For ‘Elder Parole'”
August 22, 2019: Victoria Law, Gothamist
“Aging, harmless and locked away: New York needs to parole far more elderly prisoners”
August 22, 2019: Errol Louis, The Daily News
“Protestors shout ‘Valerie Gaiter’ outside legislative office building”
August 21, 2019: Amanda Steen, The Daily News
“Rally held to push for bill giving elderly inmates a chance for parole”
August 21, 2019: Jim Dolan, WABC-TV EyeWitnessNews
“Advocates demand parole reform after death of NY’s longest-serving female inmate; daughter of her elderly victim says she belonged behind bars”
August 21, 2019: Catherina Gionio and Stephen Rex Brown, The Daily News
“Advocates for Aging Prisoners Look to Force a Debate on Parole”
August 20, 2019: Roshan Abraham, City Limits
“New York’s longest-serving female inmate died of cancer—she only got treatment in the last month of her life”
August 16, 2019: Stephen Rex Brown, The Daily News
See the print version here
“Longest-serving woman inmate’s death makes her case a cause”
August 16, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“A Better Return for Older Prisoners”
August 14, 2019: Gaby Galvin, US News & World Report
“Releasing elderly prison inmates could save Illinois a fortune—without endangering the public”
August 12, 2019: Jennifer Soble and Bill Ryan, Chicago Sun-Times
“Sensationalist Tale of An Elderly Killer Feeds False Narrative”
August 9, 2019: Adam H. Johnson, The Appeal
“Gov. Cuomo’s Clemency Out of Grasp for Many Behind Bars”
August 6, 2019: Reuven Blau, The City
“For New York’s Police Union, Any Accountability for Eric Garner’s Death is Too Much”
August 5, 2019: Vaidya Gullapalli, The Appeal
“The Troubled Business of Prisoner Health Care”
August 2, 2019: Crime and Justice News, The Crime Report
“Every D.A. in America Should Open a Sentence Review Unit”
August 2, 2019: James Forman Jr. and Sarah Lustbader, The New York Times
“America Has a Health-Care Crisis—In Prisons”
August, 2019: Alan Greenblatt, Governing
“Booker’s right: Paying $60,000 to jail one geriatric inmate deserves a ‘second look'”
July 28, 2019: Editorial Board, New Jersey Star-Ledger
“Success of ‘Unger’ inmates shows wisdom of not keeping elders in prison”
July 23, 2019: Stanley Mitchell, The Baltimore Sun
“Maryland should release more elderly inmates”
July 18, 2019: Editorial Board, The Baltimore Sun
“ACI population gets older and more expensive, in step with national trend”
July 17, 2019: Walt Buteau, 12WPRI EyeWitness News
“What Should We Do about Our Aging Prison Population?”
July 17, 2019: Hope Reese, JSTOR Daily
“Special Public Health Services for the Elderly, Prisoners and Refugees”
July 15, 2019: Dr. Ebun Ebuniomo, InHomelandSecurity
“Cory Booker aims to give aging prisoners ‘a second look'”
July 14, 2019: Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News
“The state Legislature’s criminal justice reform failures”
July 8, 2019: Steven Zeidman, New York Daily News
“Abolish the Death Penalty? Letter to the Editor”
June 23, 2019: RAPP letter, The New York Times (responding to “When We Kill,” Nicholas Kristof)
“Statement from RAPP and Parole Preparation Project: Parole Justice Takes Steps Forward but More is Urgently Needed”
June 21, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project, Media Advisory
“Prisoners Locked Out of State Criminal Justice Overhaul”
June 10, 2019: Reuven Blau and Josefa Velasquez, The City
“Who’s Afraid of Patty Butterfield? She’s 73 Years Old. Oregon’s Governor Hasn’t Set Her Free.”
June 5, 2019: Katie Shepherd, Willamette Week
NYS Parole Board Must Be Fully Staffed and Fair
June 5, 2019: Video, Release Aging People in Prison, Parole Preparation Project, Citizen Action
“Advocates and State Lawmakers Make Final Push to Fully Staff New York State Parole Board”
June 5, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign press advisory
“Parole reform movement gains traction statewide after years of advocacy”
May 31, 2019: Allen Arthur, Queens Daily Eagle
“After NECIR story, feds investigate treatment of elderly prisoners”
May 29, 2019: New England Center for Investigative Reporting
“Mechanicville mass shooter seeks parole for 9th time; Request comes as state debates parole for elderly prisoners”
May 25, 2019: Steve Hughes, Albany Times Union
“Another Voice: Parole system needs to acknowledge changed lives”
May 19, 2019: Donna Robinson, The Buffalo News
“Look at parole for older inmates”
May 19, 2019: Serena Liguori, Newsday
“Advocates and Legislators Rally for State Parole Reforms in Wake of Republicans’ Call for More Prison Time”
May 14, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP, Press Release
“NY Parole Justice Advocacy Day in Albany”
May 14, 2019: PBS New York Now (WMHT)
“Passing Elder Parole is a moral imperative”
May 10, 2019: Della Johnson and Claire DeRoche, Queens Daily Eagle
“Parole justice moves forward in New York despite police union publicity stunt”
May 9, 2019: Naomi Jaffe, BayView National Black Newspaper
“‘Elder Parole’ Consideration for Older Inmates in New York State”
May 8, 2019: Jeannie McBride, Western New York Spectrum News NY1
“Senate considers reforms to parole option for elderly inmates”
May 7, 2019: SEMOTimes, The Missouri Times
“Release Aging People in Prison and Parole Preparation Project Respond to NYS Senate Republicans’ ‘Victims’ Justice Agenda'”
May 1, 2019: RAPPCampaign.com; ParolePrepNY.org
“What Second Chance? The Uncertain Future of Post-Prison Health Care”
May 1, 2019: Cassie M. Chew, The Crime Report
“Prison Reformers Call For a Fully-Staffed, Diverse Parole Board. Will Gov. Cuomo Listen?”
May 1, 2019: Renée Feltz, The Indypendent
“A bill to increase parole for ‘elder’ inmates now has the Brooklyn D.A.’s support”
April 29, 2019: Noah Goldberg, The Brooklyn Eagle
“City’s top legal defense groups call on lawmakers to pass criminal justice reforms”
April 28, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Legislation would offer parole opportunity to aging prisoners”
April 25, 209: Melanie Lekocevic, Hudson Valley 360/Columbia-Greene Media
“Proposed bill would allow parole hearing for certain inmates”
April 25, 2019: Ayla Ferrone, WETM18
“Republican lawmakers furious over parole of Judith Clark and a new bill that could free some older prisoners”
April 25, 2019: Brendan Roney, The Legislative Gazette
“Assemblyman criticizes Democratic legislation proposing early release for older inmates”
April 25, 2019: Paul Kirby, Daily Freeman
“Proposal would make some inmates eligible for parole at 55”
April 23, 2019: Bill Spadea, Chasing News
“Legislation Would Parole Certain Inmates at 55 if Eligible”
April 22, 2019: Associated Press, WIBX950AM
“Why Philly’s Reformist Prosecutor Finally Supports Letting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Go Forward”
April 20, 2019: Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
“On the Count: Criminal Justice Reform”
April 20, 2019: On the Count, WBAI-FM
“Parole Law and Reform: New York City Bar Association Podcast”
April 19, 2019: Gina Mitchell interviews Jose Saldana, Michelle Lewin, and Steve Zeidman. New York City Bar
“After release of Judith Clark, NY lawmakers push bill to allow release of older inmates”
April 19, 2019: Denis Slattery, New York Daily News
“Weprin: Judith Clark is a reminder that rehabilitation is achievable”
April 19, 2019: David Weprin, Queens Daily Eagle
“Proposed Legislation Would Grant Older Inmates Parole Hearings After 55”
April 19, 2019: Mike Sugerman, WCBS 880
“Parole isn’t working in New York State: Our urgent duty is to properly staff the parole board”
April 19, 2019: Michelle Lewin, New York Daily News
“Legislation would parole certain inmates at 55 if eligible”
April 19, 2019: AP News
“New York Legislation Would Parole Certain Inmates At 55”
April 19, 2019: Jonathan Dienst, NBC 4New York
“Parole reform gives older Californians, including David and Louise Turpin, hope for release”
April 19, 2019: Sam Metz, Palm Springs Desert Sun
“Judith Clark’s release highlights issue of elder parole”
April 18, 2019: David Lombardo, Albany Times-Union
“Oregon lawmakers seek options for growing number of older prison inmates”
April 18, 2019: Claire Withycombe, Oregon Gazette Times
(This story ran in numerous Oregon newspapers)
“Bill Allowing ‘Elder Parole’ Consideration for Older Inmates Gains Momentum in NY”
April 12, 2019: Dan M. Clark, New York Law Journal
“To end mass incarceration, New York needs a fully staffed parole board”
April 10, 2019: Luis Sepulveda, City and State
“Press Release: NYS Senate Crime Committee Passes Elder Parole”
April 9, 2019: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
“Editorial: Parole bill would save state money, right old wrongs”
April 6, 2019: Editorial Board, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“On the Count: Parole Justice”
April 6, 2019: Steve “Humble” Mangual interviews RAPP and Parole Preparation Project, WBAI-FM
“‘There Are No More Excuses:’: Protesters Demand That Cuomo Staff the Parole Board”
April 5, 2019: Aviva Stahl, The Gothamist
“Remember what parole is for: People who commit terrible crimes can rehabilitate themselves”
April 4, 2019: Errol Louis, NY Daily News
“Activists call on Cuomo to fully staff state Parole Board”
April 3, 2019: David Brand, Queens Eagle
“Rehabilitated inmate deserves to reenter community”
April 3, 2019: Elaine Lord, Albany Times-Union
“Consider parole for elder convicts”
March 30, 2019: Brad Hoylman and Jose Saldana, Albany Times-Union
“The NYPD Union’s War Against Parole Reform”
March 29, 2019: Natasha Lennard, The Nation
“Caucus Calls to Fill Parole Board Vacancies”
March 27, 2019: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News Albany
“Documentary Asks Audience to Consider: Is Rehabilitation A Right?”
March 22, 2019: Dana Vollmer, Illiniois Public Media/NPR
“Reduce prison populations by reducing life sentences”
March 21, 2019: Daniel S. Nagin, The Washington Post (Guest Post)
“Don’t Overlook First Step Act Pilot Programs”
March 17, 2019: Addy Schmitt and Ian Herbert, Law 360
“From chapel to hospice, Rockview visit opens window on prison life”
March 14, 2019: Pamela Salokangas, Centre Daily Times (PA)
“How Pa.’s state Senate plans to reform criminal justice this session”
March 13, 2019: Elizabeth Hardison, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
“Bill to Allow Parole for Medically Frail Inmates Adopted by MI House”
March 12, 2019: Rick Pluta, WKAR
“An aging prison population is straining Pa.’s Corrections budget. Could medical parole be the answer?”
February 28, 2019: Elizabeth Hardison, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
“Elderly, Infirm Funding Units”
February 27, 2019: Harold Taylor, Anderson Valley Advertiser
“Police Unions Fight to Rescind Parole for Former Black Panther”
February 26, 2019: Victoria Law, The Appeal
“Giving prisoners serving life sentences a chance for release is a good idea”
February 20, 2019: Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
“DOC says aging inmates, mental health are driving up health care costs”
February 13, 2019: Drew Wilson, Florida Politics
“The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years”
February 12, 2019: German Lopez, Vox
“Queens Senators Back ‘Justice Roadmap’ to Reform Court System”
February 7, 2019: David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
“Pressing Albany to Address Flaws in New York’s Parole System”
January 30, 2019: Jarrett Murphy, City Limits
“Prisoners’ Rights Advocates Say Major Changes to Parole System Needed”
January 29, 2019: Ryan Whelan, Spectrum News
“Lawmakers scrutinize parole for older inmates”
January 29, 2019: Joe Mahoney, The Oneonta Daily Star
This article also appeared in the Niagara-Gazette on January 30, 2019 as “NY prisons boss pressed by lawmakers on parole for aging inmates”
“It’s Time for Parole Reform in New York; Here are the First Three Steps”
January 29, 2019: Luis Sepulveda and & David Weprin, Gotham Gazette
“Activists push reforms as lawmakers discuss public safety”
January 29, 2019: Rachel Silberstein, Albany Times Union
“It’s Time for Compassionate Release”
January 23, 2019: Vijay Das and David A. Lowe, Truthout
“N.Y. parole commissioners travel the state to conduct video hearings and rarely step inside prisons, Daily News analysis shows”
January 20, 2019: Stephen Rex Brown, Trevor Boyer, and Reuven Blau, NY Daily News
“Micheail Ward’s 84-Year Sentence Sparks Debate About Elderly Inmates”
January 15, 2019: Jim Williams, CBS Chicago
“What’s Inside (And Left Out) Of NY’s Historic Voting Reform Package”
January 14, 2019: Emma Whitford, The Gothamist
“Inmates seek bill allowing for chance of parole or death”
January 12, 2019: Pat Pratt, Columbia Daily Tribune
“Criminal justice reform groups to launch ‘days of action’ to press for sweeping changes”
January 9, 2019: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Criminal justice groups slam de Blasio’s push for tougher bail restrictions”
January 7, 2019: Reuven Blau, New York Daily News
“Why Aren’t Democratic Governors Pardoning More Prisoners?”
January 4, 2019: Matt Ford, The New Republic
“On criminal justice reform, Virginia should move past Congress’ ‘First Step'”
January 2, 2019: J. Daryl Byler, Virginia Post-Dispatch