Featured Reports
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
Reports by Date
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) Read Here
Managing the Elderly in Corrections
2014: Frank J. Porporino, National Institute of Corrections Read Here
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 Read Here
“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. Read Here
RAPP response to Attorney General Eric Holder, “Smarter & Tougher on Crime”
August 12, 2013: Mujahid Farid Read Here
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.Pages 14-15 specifically address older people in prison. Read Here