RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Nora Mishanec, Times Union, Yahoo News — (EDFORD) A coalition of nonprofits this week joined a growing chorus of concern over what advocates consider "dangerous and deteriorating" conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the state's only maximum-security prison for women...
Rebecca McCray / New York Focus — This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility...
susieday Spectre — Carol Jean Crooks was a Black dyke. Born October 12, 1946, she grew up on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and died alone in early 2022. She worked and fought all her life in relative obscurity. Though most of her work wasn’t legal, her fights created a better and fairer world. If you knew her at all, you probably knew her as Crooksie...
Chris Gelardi & Sara G. Kielly / New York Focus — With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by...
By: Serena Martin-Liguori, New York Nonprofit Media: Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, and along with gender-expansive people, often punished more harshly than others in prison.
By: Tim Murphy, NYN Media: How a used couch and other pieces of second-hand furniture have gone a long way for a nonprofit in helping those coming directly out of the prison and the shelter systems
By: Victoria Law, Truthout - Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her un-air-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees...
November 15, 2022: Molly Hagan, The Appeal
July 24, 2022: Eddie Gibbs, NY Daily NewsGibbs is the first and only formerly incarcerated member of the Legislature, representing East Harlem in the NY State Assembly
May 6, 2022: Jeff Morris, The Record-Review
May, 2022: Jonathan S. Bor, HealthAffairs.org (Health Affairs, vol 41, no.5)
Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and co-director Kathy Boudin By: Columbia University Center for Justice
