By Melissa Krull / SPECTRUM NEWS
A 22-day prison strike and the multiple deaths of those incarcerated during that time has reignited conversations about reforms in the state prison system.
A report last fall claims white people were offered parole at higher rates than people of color — and the gap has widened in the last three years.
“It shows that as many as 1,500 Black and brown folks would be home with their families today if there were not racial disparities in the parole release,” said Tolu Lawal, a staff attorney from the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University, which commissioned the report.
“It shows that as many as 1,500 Black and brown folks would be home with their families today if there were not racial disparities in the parole release,” said Tolu Lawal, a staff attorney from the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University, which commissioned the report…