By: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders
“The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons once every three days on average. In fact, a recent report from Columbia University found more people have died in our state’s prisons in the last 10 years than the total number of people executed during the more than 350 years in which New York applied the death penalty….”