Letter to Governor Cuomo: Use Your Executive Clemency Power to Release Aging People From NYS Prisons
September 28, 2020: Eight Candidates for District Attorney of New York County Read Here
Testimony and Recommendations of Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP and Parole Preparation Project (PPP) to the NYS Senate Hearing on COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails
September 22, 2020: RAPP and PPP Read Here
Letter to Gov. Cuomo and NYS Legislative Leadership Opposing Plan to Make a Prison Nursing Home in Adirondack
June 25, 2020: RAPP and 75 other organizations, institutions and associations Read Here
Failing Grades: States’ Responses to COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons
June 25, 2020: Emily Widra and Dylan Hayre, Prison Policy Initiative (NYS gets an F+) Read Here
Open Letter to NYS Legislature: Address Racist State Violence of Prisons and Policing
June 5, 2020: 176 NYS Organizations Read Here
Candidates Tell NYS Legislative Leaders: Save The Lives of People in Prison Vulnerable to COVID-19
May 28, 2020: Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and other candidates for NYS Legislature Read Here
NY Congressional Delegation Letter Urges Gov. Cuomo to Release More Incarcerated NY’ers
May 22, 2020: US Rep. Jerold Nadler et al Read Here
Why New York Needs Elder Parole to Combat COVID-19 Behind Bars
May 21, 2020: Release Aging People in Prison, Parole Preparation Project, HALT Solitary, FWD.us and other advocates Read Here
“U.S. Representative Pressley, Congressional Colleagues Call on Baker, Cuomo and Other Governors to Decarcerate Amid Rising COVID-19 Infections and Deaths in State Correctional Facilities”
May 5, 2020: Ayanna Pressley, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jan Schakowsky, Barbara Lee, Nydia M. Velázquez, Karen Bass. Read Here
COVID-19 in NYS Prisons: Solutions
May 5, 2020: RAPP, Parole Preparation Project, FWD.us and other advocates Read Here
47 New York Senators and Assembly Members Call on Gov. Cuomo to Grant #ClemencyNow and #StopTheSpread of COVID-19 in New York’s 52 State Prisons
May 1, 2020: Assembly Member/Majority Speaker Crystal Peoples-Stokes and 46 other NYS legislators Read Here