Benjamin Smalls

New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

October 13, 2021 by susie day

Center for Justice at Columbia University This report compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the …

Another Voice: Incarcerated people deserve a second chance at life

June 6, 2021 by susie day

June 1, 2021: Deacon Jerome Wright, The Buffalo News

Op-Ed | We must end death by incarceration

May 8, 2021 by susie day

The death penalty has been banned in New York since 1984, but the new death penalty is long sentences without opportunity for parole. This is death-by-incarceration. Death-by-incarceration does not make …