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DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.

September 15, 2022: 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), also known as life sentences. Over 40 people currently serving DBI submitted letters in support of the complaint.

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Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole

June 23, 2022: Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project

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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

May 2, 2022: Columbia University Center for Justice

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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…”

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NEW YORK STATE LEADERS: NO ROLLBACKS TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS!

March, 2022: Letter from civil rights, criminal justice reform, democracy, and philanthropic leaders and organizations to Governor Hochul, Lieutenant Governor Benjamin, and legislative leaders

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Letter to New York Legislators: Pass The Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole Bills to Protect Public Health

“On February 24, 2022, we sent a letter to the leadership of the New York State legislature in support of two bills, the Elder Parole Bill and the Fair and Timely Parole Bill, that would reduce the number of people in New York State prisons and thus lessen the risk of COVID in state prison facilities.“

February 24, 2022: UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project

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Resolution: Manhattan Community Board Six Supports NY State Senate Bill S15A for Elder Parole

The Elder Parole Bill affords a parole hearing to any incarcerated person after age 55 who has served 15 years in prison

February 16, 2022: Manhattan Community Board Six

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Resolution: Manhattan Community Board Six Supports NY State Senate Bill S7514 for Fair and Timely Parole

The Fair and Timely Parole Bill directs that parole be granted unless the inmate presents a current and unreasonable risk or such risk cannot be mitigated by parole supervision

February 16, 2022: Manhattan Community Board Six

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RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal

“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….”

January 25, 2022: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders

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Elderly, Detained, and Justice-Involved: The Most Incarcerated Generation

Winter, 2022, Rachael Bedard, Joshua Vaughn, and Angela Silletti Murolo, The City University of New York Law Review (Vol. 25, No. 1)

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New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps Rising

“In the months ahead, policy makers should carefully examine opportunities to reduce the population of incarcerated individuals age 50 and above.“

January, 2022: NY State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli

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Toward a Fairer Parole Process

“New York State’s parole-review process must focus on who people are at the time of the interview and whether they pose a current and clear public safety risk. If petitioners do not present such a risk, they should be released.”

December 2021, Vera Institute of Justice

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New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

October 2021: Center for Justice at Columbia University

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The Problem With Parole: New York State’s Failing System of Release

June 2021: NYU Center on  Race, Inequality and the Law and Parole Preparation Project

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A Second Look at Injustice

May 12, 2021: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, PhD, The Sentencing Project

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Faith Leaders on Long Island to NYS Senators: Pass Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole

May 6, 2021: 43 Long Island Faith Community Leaders and Institutions

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No Time To Wait: Decarceration, COVID, and Public Health

April 2, 2021: RAPP Public Health Advisory Group

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Unlocking Billions: A Fiscal Analysis of Pending Justice Reforms in New York State

March 10, 2021: The Center for Justice at Columbia University

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NY Doctors: Open Letter to Gov. Cuomo for COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Prisons and Jails

February 24, 2021: Hundreds of NYS Doctors and Organizations

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No End In Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment

February 17, 2021: Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project

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NYC Public Defender Legislative Priorities for Criminal Legal System Reform

December 16, 2020: Six Public Defender Organizations

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Statement from the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus on the COVID-19 Risk in New York Prisons

November 25, 2020: Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Caucus of the NYS Legislature

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Open Letter to the Hon. Gov. Andrew Cuomo from Nobel Peace Laureates and world humanitarian and religious leaders urging clemency for David Gilbert and other incarcerated elders

November, 2020: 45 international and US humanitarian and religious leaders

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Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19: Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety

October 19, 2020: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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The Missing Chapter: Governor Cuomo’s Failure to Protect Incarcerated New Yorkers from COVID-19

October 12, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison

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Letter to Governor Cuomo: Use Your Executive Clemency Power to Release Aging People From NYS Prisons

September 28, 2020: Eight Candidates for District Attorney of New York County

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Joint Statement in Support of NYS Parole Board’s Decision to Release Jalil Muntaqim

September 23, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, Parole Preparation Project, Brooklyn Defenders Service, and the Legal Aid Society

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Testimony and Recommendations of Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project (PPP) to the NYS Senate Hearing on COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails

September 22, 2020: RAPP and PPP

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A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons

September 14, 2020: The Urban Institute

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Movement For Black Lives Statement, “Attica Is Now!”

September 13, 2020: Monifa Bandele, Policy Table Leader, Movement For Black Lives

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Embracing Clemency: How governors can liberate thousands of people from state prisons

August 5, 2020: The Redemption Campaign, ACLU Smart Justice

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Letter to Gov. Cuomo and NYS Legislative Leadership Opposing Plan to Make a Prison Nursing Home in Adirondack

June 25, 2020: RAPP and 75 other organizations, institutions and associations

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Failing Grades: States’ Responses to COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons

June 25, 2020: Emily Widra and Dylan Hayre, Prison Policy Initiative (NYS gets an F+)

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Open Letter to NYS Legislature: Address Racist State Violence of Prisons and Policing

June 5, 2020: 176 NYS Organizations

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Candidates Tell NYS Legislative Leaders: Save The Lives of People in Prison Vulnerable to COVID-19

May 28, 2020: Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and other candidates for NYS Legislature

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NY Congressional Delegation Letter Urges Gov. Cuomo to Release More Incarcerated NY’ers

May 22, 2020: US Rep. Jerold Nadler et al

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Why New York Needs Elder Parole to Combat COVID-19 Behind Bars

May 21, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison, Parole Preparation Project, HALT Solitary, FWD.us and other advocates

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“U.S. Representative Pressley, Congressional Colleagues Call on Baker, Cuomo and Other Governors to Decarcerate Amid Rising COVID-19 Infections and Deaths in State Correctional Facilities”

May 5, 2020: Ayanna Pressley, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jan Schakowsky, Barbara Lee, Nydia M. Velázquez, Karen Bass.

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COVID-19 in NYS Prisons: Solutions

May 5, 2020: RAPP, Parole Preparation Project, FWD.us and other advocates

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COVID-19 in NYS Prisons: Facts v. Myths:

May 5, 2020: RAPP, Parole Preparation Project, FWD.us and other advocates

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COVID-19 in NYS Prisons: The Truth About What Gov. Cuomo Has/Has Not Done

May 5, 2020: RAPP, Parole Preparation Project, FWD.us and other advocates

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47 New York Senators and Assembly Members Call on Gov. Cuomo to Grant #ClemencyNow and #StopTheSpread of COVID-19 in New York’s 52 State Prisons

May 1, 2020: Assembly Member/Majority Speaker Crystal Peoples-Stokes and 46 other NYS legislators

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Understanding Violent Crime-Recidivism

May, 2020: J.J. Prescott, Benjamin Pyle, and Sonja B. Starr, Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 95, No. 4

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Averting an Imminent Catastrophe: Recommendations to US Local, State and Federal Officials to Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

April 29, 2020: Human Rights Watch

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Columbia University Faculty to Gov. Cuomo: Release Elderly and Infirm People from NYS Prisons

April 21, 2020: Columbia University in the City of New York

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Recommendations to NYS Parole Board for action on COVID-19

April 20, 2020: 27 Legal and Advocacy Institutions and Organizations

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New York Can—And Must—Lead to Protect People in Prison

April, 2020: Vera Institute of Justice

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CARE Taskforce of the New York City Council to Gov. Cuomo: Release Incarcerated Individuals 55 and Older Or Who Have Underlying Conditions

April 15, 2020: Member Organizations, NYC CARE (Compassion and Assistance for Returning Elders) Task Force

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Law Enforcement Action Partnership proposes Gov. Cuomo Issue This Executive Order

April 10, 2020: Law Enforcement Action Partnership

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CDC Emergency Call to Action—Explicitly Include Decarceration and Expanded Access to Healthcare to Curb COVID-19 Impact in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Facilities

April 9, 2020: Drug Policy Alliance and hundreds of individuals and organizations

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Gov. Cuomo: Grant Clemencies to Older New Yorkers in Prison Who Are Vulnerable to Coronavirus

April, 2020: Columbia University School of Social Work and 250 social workers (list open for additional names)

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Brennan Center for Justice Letter to Governors re: COVID-19 and Governors’ Executive Authority to Release Vulnerable People Who Pose No Risk to Public Safety from Incarceration

April 6, 2020: Lauren Brooke-Eisen, Ames Grawert, and Taryn Merkl, Brennan Center for Justice

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Faith Leaders Letter to Gov. Cuomo Urging Clemency in COVID-19 Crisis

April 6, 2020: New York Theological Seminary

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Letter to Gov. Cuomo from Legal Professionals

April 3, 2020: 16 organizations

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150 Public Health Professionals Urge Gov. Cuomo to Release Elders, Others Vulnerable to COVID-19

April 2, 2020: Released by RAPP

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Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms

April, 2020: Alexi Jones, Prison Policy Initiative

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Legal Aid Society Demands Release of Vulnerable Incarcerated People

March 30, 2020: The Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense

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Brennan Center for Justice Letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo re: COVID-19 Clemency Power

March 30, 2020: Lauren Brooke-Eisen, Ames Grawert, and Taryn Merkl, Brennan Center for Justice

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Commute Federal Prison Sentences for Populations Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus

March 24, 2020: The Sentencing Project, ACLU, Justice Roundtable, We Got Us Now, Justice Action Network, FreedomWorks,  R Street, Leadership Conference, Due Process Institute

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Appeal to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

March 20, 2020: 13 Leaders of NYS Prison Reentry Services and Programs

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Movement for Black Lives Policy Demands for COVID-19

March, 2020: M4BL

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Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 – Statistical Tables

February 2020: E. Ann Carson and Mary P. Cowhig, U.S. DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics 

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Virtual Life Sentences

August 29, 2019: The Sentencing Project

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Levers of Change in Parole Release and Revocation

May 2019: Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

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The Next Step: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes

April 2, 2019: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, The Sentencing Project

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Failure Should Not Be an Option: Grading the parole systems of all 50 states

February 26, 2019: Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative (spoiler alert: NYS gets a D-)

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RAPP Testimony to NYS Legislature’s 2019 Public Protection Budget Hearing

January 29, 2019: Jose Saldana and David George, Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)

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Sentencing Project Testimony to NYS Legislature’s 2019 Public Protection Budget Hearing

January 29, 2019: Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project

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Parole Reform White Paper

December 29, 2018: Sarah Aagard, Rosalind Dillon, Joseph Dole, and Raul Dorado, Parole Illinois

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The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting: A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars

November, 2018: Justice Policy Institute

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Eight Keys to Mercy: How to Shorten Excessive Prison Sentences

November, 2018: Jorge Renaud, Prison Policy Initiative

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Reimagining Prison

October, 2018: Ruth Delaney, Ram Subramanian, Alison Shames, Nicholas Turner, The Vera Institute

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State Medical and Geriatric Parole Laws

August 27, 2018: National Conference of State Legislatures

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Ending Perpetual Punishment: The case for commutations for people in Michigan prisons

August, 2018: American Friends Service Committee

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Modernizing Parole Statutes: Guidance from Evidence-Based Practices

August 3, 2018: Catherine C. McVey, Edward E. Rhine, & Carl V. Reynolds, The Robina Institute 

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New York State Parole Board: Failures in Staffing and Performance

August, 2018: The Parole Preparation Project and the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign

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Everywhere and Nowhere: Compassionate Release in the States

June, 2018: Mary Price, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)

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The Health of America’s Aging Prison Population (Abstract)

June 1, 2018: Skarupski, Gross, Schrack, Deal, and Eber, Epidemiology Review  (Abstract; full text to be released June 1, 2019)

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Extraordinary and Compelling: The Use of Compassionate Release Laws in the United States

May, 2018: Lindsey Wylie, Alexis Knutson, and Edie Greene for the American Psychological Association, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Against Life Without Parole

May, 2018: Judith Lichtenberg, Washington University Jurisprudence Review

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The High Cost of Low Risk

May, 2018: Elizabeth Gaynes, Tanya Krupat, David George, and Colin Bernatsky, for The Osborne Association

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2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism: A 9-Year Follow-Up Period (2005-2014)

May, 2018: Mariel Alper and Matthew Durose, U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Stastistics

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A Question of Compassion: Medical Parole in New York State

April, 2018: Rebecca Silber, Léon Digard, Tina Maschi, Brie Williams, and Jessi LaChance for The Vera Institute of Justice

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RAPP Testimony to New York State Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2018 Budget and the Executive Summary

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Prisoners in 2016

January, 2018: E. Ann Carson, BJS Statistician, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Aging Out: Using Compassionate Release to Address the Growth of Aging and Infirm Prison Populations

December, 2017: Rebecca Silber, Alison Shames, and Kelsey Reid, The Vera Institute

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Prison Health Care Costs and Quality

October 18, 2017: The Pew Charitable Trust

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Collaborating Across the Walls: A Community Approach to Parole Justice

October, 2017: Michelle Lewin and Nora Carroll, CUNY Law Review

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A Way Out: Abolishing Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania

August, 2017: Quinn Cozzens and Bret Grote, Abolitionist Law Center

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A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons

July, 2017: Open Society Foundation

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Community Board 10-Manhattan Resolution in Support of RAPP

June 17, 2017: Henrietta Lyle & Tamara Martin, Community Board 10-Manhattan

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Profiles in Parole Release and Revocation New York

June, 2017: The Robina Institute, University of Minnesota

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Reentry Experiences of Elderly Ex-Offenders: Wasted Lives

May, 2017: Charmaine Clarke, Stony Brook University (thesis)

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Still Life: America’s Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences

May, 2017: Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project

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An Examination of Florida’s Prison Population Trends

May, 2017: The Crime and Justice Institute, prepared for the Florida Legislature

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Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA

April 8, 2017: Christopher Wildeman & Emily Wang, in “America: Equity and Equality in Health 4,” The Lancet Vol. 389, No. 10077 (see p. 1464)

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New York State’s Aging Prison Population

April, 2017: Office of the New York State Comptroller Thomas diNapoli

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Prison Boomers: Policy Implications of Aging Prison Populations

March 13, 2017: Zachery Psick, Cyrus Ahalt, Rebecca T. Brown, and Jonathan Simon, International Journal of Prison Health

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Delaying a Second Chance: The Declining Prospects for Parole on Life Sentences

January 31, 2017: The Sentencing Project

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Aging in Prison: A Human Rights Problem We Must Fix

January, 2017: Prison Watch Project, American Friends Service Committee

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How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?

December 9, 2016: Lauren-Brooke “L.B.” Eisen, James Austin Ph.D., James Cullen, Jonathan Frank, Inimai M. Chettiar, The Brennan Center

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The Liman Report: Moving Criminal Justice

Fall 2016: Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale University

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Crime Survivors Speak: The First-Ever National Survey of Victims’ Views on Safety and Justice

December, 2016: Alliance for Safety and Justice

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False Hope: How Parole Systems Fail Youth Serving Extreme Sentences

November 2016: American Civil Liberties Union

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Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell

November, 2016: Association of State Correctional Administrators, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale University

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The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Methods Analysis

September 2016: Erin M. Kerrison, Ronet Bachman, Raymond Paternoster, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

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A By-Product of Mass Incarceration: New York’s Parole System in Need of Repair

July, 2016: Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP

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RAPP Submission to the UN Committee on Torture

June 27, 2016: Tomiko Shine, DC RAPP

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Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System

April 23, 2016: Executive Office of the President of the United States

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U.S. Sentencing Commission Public Hearing on Compassionate Release and Conditions of Supervision

(for Federal Bureau of Prisons) 48-minute video, February 17, 2016

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Proposed amendments to Sentencing Guidelines (including sections on compassionate release/conditions of supervision)

February 15, 2016; public comment period ends 3/21/2016, United States Sentencing Commission

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Supporting America’s Aging Prisoner Population: Opportunities and Challenges for Area Agencies on Aging

2016: National Association of Area Agencies on Aging

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Aging in Prison: Reducing Elder Incarceration and Promoting Public Safety

November, 2015: a policy publication by RAPP, Center for Justice at Columbia University, and others; includes chapters by former heads of department of corrections and parole board 

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Campaign to Change Parole in New York: “Nature of the Crime”

May 18, 2015: Parole Justice Now!

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Analysis of United States Compassionate and Geriatric Release Laws: Towards a Rights-Based Response for Diverse Elders and Their Families and Communities

May 9, 2015: Be The Evidence and Cure International

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The Impact of an Aging Inmate Population on the Federal Bureau of Prisons

May 2015 (revised, February 2016): U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General

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It is Important to Understand Structural Barriers in Parole Advocacy

2015: Mujahid Farid, Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP

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From the Warehouse to the Deathbed: Challenging the Conditions of Mass Death in Prison

Spring, 2015: Ernest K. Chavez, San Jose State University

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Still Blocking the Exit: a report on parole-eligible lifers in the Maryland prison system who are denied release

January 20, 2015: Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative and ACLU of Maryland

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Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP: Challenging the Punishment Paradigm

December 10, 2014: Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn: The Roots of Mass Incarceration: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor/Socialism and Democracy special issue

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As Outside, So Inside: America’s Aging Prison Population

October 20, 2014: Robert Winters, JD, corrections.com

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Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System

September 5, 2014: KiDeuk Kim & Bryce Peterson, Urban Institute

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Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Interviews: A Preliminary Report

September 2014: Ariane Davisson for RAPP

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State Prison Health Care Spending: An examination

July, 2014: the Pew Charitable Trust and the Arthur D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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New York Parole Board Ignores Community

Statement by RAPP, June 23, 2014

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Race, Slavery & Incarceration

“Demonizing People of Color and the Poor in the United States By Way of the Thirteenth Amendment Hoax” by Mujahid Farid, March 2014

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Statement by RAPP After Review of Info Submitted During Parole Regulations Comments Period

February 6, 2014: Mujahid Farid, Statement of Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)

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Managing the Elderly in Corrections

2014: Frank J. Porporino, National Institute of Corrections

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Stemming the Tide: Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System

November, 2013: Julie Samuels, Nancy La Vigne, and Samuel Taxy, Urban Institute

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“Smarter and Tougher on Crime” Remarks

August 12, 2013: Attorney General Eric Holder, Remarks to American Bar Association on the initial package of reforms dubbed the Justice Department’s “Smart on Crime” initiative.

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RAPP response to Attorney General Eric Holder, “Smarter & Tougher on Crime”

August 12, 2013: Mujahid Farid

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New York State COMPAS-Probation Risk and Need Assessment Study: Examining the Recidivism Scale’s Effectiveness and Predictive Accuracy

August 2013: Prepared by Sharon Lansing, Ph.D. for the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services.
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You Can’t Get There From Here: Elderly Prisoners, Prison Downsizing, and the Insufficiency of Cost Cutting Advocacy

April, 2013: Elizabeth Rapaport, University of New Mexico School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

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The Dose-Response of Time Served in Prison on Mortality: New York State, 1989-2003

March, 2013: Evelyn J. Patterson, PhD, American Journal of Public Health

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The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in US Federal Prisons

2012: Human Rights Watch

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At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly

June 13, 2012: American Civil Liberties Union/ ACLU

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Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States

January 27, 2012: Human Rights Watch

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It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release

April, 2010: The Vera Institute for Justice

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Growing Older: Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging Population

January 2007: Brie A. Williams and Rita Abraldes, in Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY

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Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California

December  2005: Heidi Strupp and Donna Willmott, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

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Second Chances: Juveniles serving life without parole in Michigan Prisons

January 1, 2004: ACLU of Michigan

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Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo

May 17, 2022:

Our Hearts Are With the People of Buffalo

Dear RAPP Family,

Yesterday, RAPP’s Director Jose Saldaña released the following statement in response to the white supremacist attack in Buffalo:

“We are devastated, saddened, and infuriated by the white supremacist attack on the Black community in Buffalo. We stand in love, support, and solidarity with the people and families deeply harmed by this horrific act and the cumulative impact that racism has had on generations of Black people.

We must all eradicate white supremacy from our state’s systems, institutions, and culture. Importantly, we also call on lawmakers to take action to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the families and community targeted in this vicious act of hate. Reinstating the death penalty or expanding the use of life without parole sentences in response to this attack will accomplish neither. As is the case today, those condemned to death by execution or death by incarceration will be mostly Black and Brown New Yorkers. These extreme sanctions have never kept our communities safe. They only reinforce racism in our state and undermine rather than promote community safety and healing. Instead, our state’s political leaders must protect and empower Black and Brown communities by tearing down systems of racial oppression and by providing us with the material resources we need and deserve. All love and power to the people of Buffalo.”

In addition to sharing our statement on twitter, we ask that you join us in supporting local Buffalo organizations that are supporting community members on the ground, including:

  • Donate to Black Love Resists in the Rust’s Mental Health and Food Support Fund here: https://donate-usa.keela.co/mental-health-and-food-support
  • Drop off food at the Rooted in Love Community Fridge at 347 East Ferry Street, and/or make a donation to the cause: https://rootedinloveinc.com/donate-to-our-cause/
  • Drop-off fresh produce, milk, eggs, cheese, formula, baby food, juice, water, labeled cook meals (no raw meat) to the Buffalo Community Fridge at 257 E. Ferry St.
  • Donate to Feed Buffalo, a Black woman-led food pantry that provides access to free locally-sourced, healthy, and halal food: https://www.feedbuffalo.org/
  • Donate to Every Bottom Covered, a Black-led Diaper Bank located on the East Side of Buffalo: https://www.everybottomcovered.org/
  • Donate catered food by emailing: phylicia@blackloveresistsintherust.org.
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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

May 2, 2022: Columbia University Center for Justice

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Sentencing Project Testimony to NYS Legislature’s 2019 Public Protection Budget Hearing

January 29, 2019: Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project

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Aging in Prison: Reducing Elder Incarceration and Promoting Public Safety

November, 2015: a policy publication by RAPP, Center for Justice at Columbia University, and others; includes chapters by former heads of department of corrections and parole board 

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