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Why clemency should be more available for incarcerated who have little hope
John Moore, Jr., NY Amstserdam News — Thirty years ago, I was sentenced to life without parole for killing a young man on Buffalo’s East Side. I was twenty. Since my incarceration, I have been committed to change and to helping others find a path to rehabilitation. I have earned a college degree, counseled peers…
N.Y. prisons are in crisis. The first step to fixing them is simple.
Noah Powelson, Queens Daily Eagle — Gov. Hochul vowed to reform the clemency process and grant executive clemency on a rolling basis, a promise many advocates accused her of walking back…
Advocates say Hochul is failing to keep promise on prison commutations
Noah Powelson, Queens Daily Eagle — Gov. Hochul vowed to reform the clemency process and grant executive clemency on a rolling basis, a promise many advocates accused her of walking back…
Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition
Karen Juanita Carrillo, Amsterdam Newst — Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30, 2026, after a years-long struggle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 55…
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña Talk About The Young Lords
Johanna Fernández, Jose Saldańa, susie day, CounterPumch — Commemorating Johanna Fernández • her interview with RAPP’s Jose Saldaña, conducted in 2020
Legal Team of Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Appeals to the UN for Support
Renée Feltz, Truthout — World-renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is 72 years old, suffering multiple health problems, and may die in prison, say legal advocates in a new request they filed today that asks the United Nations to support his release. Abu-Jamal’s legal team decided to appeal to the UN after having exhausted nearly every…