Featured Reports
DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE: The Cruelty of Life Imprisonment in the United States
September 12, 2023: “Isn’t part of the human experience learning from mistakes and becoming better? . . . We transgress, we’re held accountable, we transform, and then we make amends. Death by incarceration strips people of this experience…”
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 …
Reports by Date
Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States
January 27, 2012: Human Rights Watch Find the book
It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release
April, 2010: The Vera Institute for Justice Read Here
Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
December 2005: Heidi Strupp and Donna Willmott, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Read Here