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  • Formerly incarcerated and fighting for prison reform

    Formerly incarcerated and fighting for prison reform

    September 12, 2023

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

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

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

    September 12, 2023

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

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

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

    August 28, 2023

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

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  • Opinion Letter: Compassionate Release for Those Aging Behind Bars

    Opinion Letter: Compassionate Release for Those Aging Behind Bars

    August 21, 2023

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

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

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

    August 11, 2023

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

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

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

    July 17, 2023

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

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