Recent Articles
In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”
By: Victoria Law, Truthout – Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her un-air-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees…
Personnel changes on New York’s Parole Board
By: David Lombardo, The Capitol Pressroom – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….
State Assembly headed back next week to discuss short-term rentals, elder parole
By: Maury Thompson, The Post-Star – …The ”elder parole” legislation, which has not passed the Senate, would require the Parole Board to conduct a hearing for all incarcerated individuals age 55 and over who have completed at least 15 years of their sentences.
Incarceration bills give older prisoners second chance in New York
By: Eric Harvey, The Riverdale Press – Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson….
New York’s Prison System Abruptly Halts a Policy Censoring Artists and Writers
By: Victoria Law The Nation – One day after New York Focus broke the story about the censorship policy, the state department announced that it would suspend the rule impeding creative endeavors in prisons
Editorial: End this lobbying secrecy
By: Times Union Editorial Board, Times Union – Ending the secrecy surrounding lobbying on judgeships should be among the more urgent business as the Legislature prepares to wrap up its session this week.