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
The Missing Chapter: Governor Cuomo’s Failure to Protect Incarcerated New Yorkers from COVID-19
October 12, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison Read Here
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 Read Here
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 Read Here
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 Read Here
A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons
September 14, 2020: The Urban Institute Read Here
Movement For Black Lives Statement, “Attica Is Now!”
September 13, 2020: Monifa Bandele, Policy Table Leader, Movement For Black Lives Read Here