The Unlikely Friendship Helping Drive NY Parole Reform Fight
By: Rachel Rippetoe, Law 360: Jose Saldana had long passed his minimum 25-year prison sentence as he prepared for his fifth parole hearing in November 2017....
By: Rachel Rippetoe, Law 360: Jose Saldana had long passed his minimum 25-year prison sentence as he prepared for his fifth parole hearing in November 2017....
By: Carol Shapiro, New York Times: As a former parole commissioner, I know that dementia is just the tip of the iceberg of the problem of mass aging behind bars....
By: Carol Shapiro, New York Daily News - People often think mass incarceration is the result of a few laws — the federal 1994 crime bill or state-level Rockefeller Drug laws, for example — but in reality it’s driven by everyday decisions, small and large, made by actors across the justice system, including some you’ve probably never heard of...
July 11, 2022: Kate Lisa, NYS Spectrum News 1
Between the grueling schedule, copious paperwork, abrupt hearings and risk-averse colleagues, prison reformer Carol Shapiro realized the New York parole system was dysfunctional by design June 17, 2021: Carol Shapiro …
Governor Kathy Hochul says she will finally fill vacancies on the state’s parole board, opening the potential to shift from presumptive detention February 8, 2022: Nick Pinto, New York Focus/Bolts
January 19, 2022: Tim Williams / Susan Arbetter, State of Politics / Capital Tonight, Spectrum News
January 11, 2022: Liz Bishop, WRGB/CBS
June 9, 2021: Tamar Sarai Davis, Prism News