RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Rebecca C Lewis / City & State NY — At a time of turbulence for New York’s prisons, a long-sought criminal justice reform measure now has enough support to pass the upper chamber – on paper, at least...
Luis Lombardi / Hoodline New York City — Advocates for criminal justice reform are actively campaigning in New York for significant changes to the parole system, anticipated to reshape the roadmap for incarcerated individuals' release in 2025...
Arun Venugopal / Gothamist — Criminal justice reform advocates in New York are making their case for fixes to the parole system in 2025...
Robert Abruzzese / Brooklyn Daily Eagle — A recent report by NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality & the Law, titled “Freedom Delayed, Justice Denied: Increasing Racial Disparities in New York State’s Parole Release Decisions,” highlights significant racial disparities in parole release rates in New York State...
Ashley Hupfl, The Daily Gazzette: STATE CAPITOL — As Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes closing up to five prisons this year, parole and prison reform advocates gathered at the state Capitol Tuesday to push legislation aimed at systematic change...
Marta Nelson & Erica Bryant, Vera.org: At 68 years old, Greg Mingo was granted clemency and released from a New York State prison after being unjustly convicted of a crime he did not commit. After spending more than 39 years in prison, he expected to die there...
Robert Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: As the state’s legislative session kicks off with the new year, a vocal group comprising family members of incarcerated individuals and former prisoners themselves wasted no time to gather at the Capitol on Wednesday morning...
Amanda D’Ambrosio: Crain’s New York Business – DLegislators and aging advocates are pressing state health officials to include elder parole reform in the state’s Master Plan for Aging—an effort they say is critical to address the health crisis for older New Yorkers in prisons....
By: James Ford, PIX/11 News: IIf a person older than 55 has been incarcerated for more than 15 years and has proven themselves to be a model prisoner, should they be guaranteed consideration for parole, no matter their crime? It’s a question that was at the center of a rally in Yonkers on Wednesday...
October 19, 2023: In latter to NY State Department of Health and the State Office for the Aging, Senators and Assembly Members urge enactment of the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills + comprehensive re-entry support network for older adults
By: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News 1 - "A proposal that would make it easier for people who have served more than a decade in prison to be considered for parole is gaining ground in the state Senate with a majority of lawmakers in the chamber now signing on to support the bill...."
By: Wyatt Stayner, Prison Journalism Project, "The aging prison population has tripled in the past two decades. These facilities, which offer poor medical care and a stressful environment, are ill-equipped to handle their graying population"
