RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Owen Young / Vanguard — (ALBANY, N.Y.) New York State spent a record $450.6 million on prison healthcare in 2025, according to a February report by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, even as the aging incarcerated population driving these costs reoffends at some of the lowest rates in the system and continues to be denied parole at increasing rates...
Kelsie Radziski / LI Herald — A rally was held in Hempstead on Dec. 4 to push for the passage of two bills statewide that would help imprisoned individuals seek justice through the parole system...
Charlene Allen & Cameron Rasmussen / INQUEST: To achieve justice beyond punishment, we must challenge the narrative that carceral violence is the only response to other forms of violence...
Barbara Hanson Treen, New York Times: As a New York State parole commissioner for 12 years, I evaluated the readiness for release and risk to public safety of more than 75,000 incarcerated people. I saw these changes in people every day.
Yet in spite of those transformations, the number of aging long-termers warehoused in prisons has only increased in recent years...
May 11, 2022: Arun Venugopal, Gothamist
May 9, 2022: Melissa Tanis, Amplified Voices: Criminal Legal Reform Advocates with Lived Experience (Spotify podcast)
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
February 7, 2022: Media Advisory As Part of the ‘Parole Justice is Racial Justice’ Virtual Advocacy Day with 650 Participants from Across NY State, Speakers Will Call for Passage of …
February 7, 2022: Graham Rayman, New York Daily News
December 23, 2021: Errol Louis, Intelligencer, New York magazine
