RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
By: Brooklyn Eagle Staff, Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Attorney General James ... said, “The Elder Parole bill will help create a pathway for people to re-enter our society and be reunited with their families. When people transform their lives, they deserve an opportunity for redemption.”
By: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle - "The event, dubbed, 'Freedom at the Finish Line -- Breaking Chains and Winning Parole Justice,' saw 350 passionate advocates take to the Empire State Plaza Concourse, accompanied by a full-size marching band and the powerful voices of freedom songs..."
By: Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle
By: Raga Justin, Times Union Legislators heard testimony Wednesday on a pair of bills that advocates say would help elderly inmates withdecades-long sentences avoid dying in prison ALBANY — Robert …
By: David Slattery, NY Daily News ALBANY — Proponents of a pair of bills that would overhaul the state’s parole system renewed their push for change Wednesday as lawmakers held …
May, 2022: Jonathan S. Bor, HealthAffairs.org (Health Affairs, vol 41, no.5)
April 20, 2022: Samar Khurshid, Gotham Gazette
January 19, 2022: Tim Williams / Susan Arbetter, State of Politics / Capital Tonight, Spectrum News
December 1, 2021: David Lombardo, The Capitol Pressroom
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 …
