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The Problem with Parole: New York State’s Failing System of Release
June 2023: Center on Race, Inequality, & the Law – “The legislature should pass a provision that grants all people aged 55 or older, who have served 15 years or more in prison, immediate parole consideration, regardless of crime or sentence. Roughly 1,000 people are serving life without the possibility of parole or virtual life sentences. … ¶ It is appalling that despite the repeated documentation of the vast racial disparities in decisions by New York State’s Parole Board, those disparities have continued and worsened, while New York policymakers have failed to address the issue.”
Elder Parole is an Aging Issue
By: Hunter Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging While the number of people in New York State prisons has been declining, the number and proportion of older people in prison has …
DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
Dozens of organizations across the United States submitted a complaint to United Nations independent experts challenging the United States’ policy and practice of condemning people to death by incarceration (DBI), …
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The Problem with Parole: New York State’s Failing System of Release
June 2023: Center on Race, Inequality, & the Law – “The legislature should pass a provision that grants all people aged 55 or older, who have served 15 years or more in prison, immediate parole consideration, regardless of crime or sentence. Roughly 1,000 people are serving life without the possibility of parole or virtual life sentences. … ¶ It is appalling that despite the repeated documentation of the vast racial disparities in decisions by New York State’s Parole Board, those disparities have continued and worsened, while New York policymakers have failed to address the issue.”
Elder Parole is an Aging Issue
By: Hunter Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging While the number of people in New York State prisons has been declining, the number and proportion of older people in prison has …
DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
Dozens of organizations across the United States submitted a complaint to United Nations independent experts challenging the United States’ policy and practice of condemning people to death by incarceration (DBI), …
Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole
By: Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project
Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin By: Columbia University Center for Justice
Executive inaction: States and the federal government fail to use commutations as a release mechanism
April, 2022: Prison Policy Initiative: “Our survey of eight states found an average of one commutation for every 10,000 imprisoned people each year…”