RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Jose Saldaña / On the Count — Saldaña talks from the RAPP office in Manhattan with Jamel Bellamy, Akil Shakur, and Andre Ward at the WBAI-FM radio station in Brooklyn, during a broadcast of On the Count: The Prison & Criminal Legal System Transformation Report. They remember the Attica rebellion and Attica brothers like Tyrone Larkins...
By: Andre Ward, CityLImits, “We witness firsthand the challenges that our older participants face when they come to us, usually because they no longer have family to turn to after such long periods of incarceration: physical health issues that might be less severe if treated properly sooner; unaddressed trauma, greatly exacerbated by incarceration; lack of financial resources; and homelessness.”
