RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Rebecca C. Lewis / City & State — More than 130 advocacy groups – including the WFP, NAACP New York Conference and Release Aging People in Prison – called on the governor to reduce the state's prison population...
Chris Gelardi / NY Focus — A man in a green prison uniform, his face bleeding and wrists shackled behind his back, slouches on a medical examination table. A uniformed guard shoves an object into his mouth, while another grips his throat, and several more take turns beating him. They hit him all over his body. When he loses consciousness, they lift him by his collar and throw him against a window...
Brendan J. Lyons / Times Union — Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration and union representing more than 13,000 correction officers reach a tentative agreement ...
Rebecca McCray / Hell Gate — "It happened because correction officers have been held accountable for their actions, and they feel threatened because they can be prosecuted for killing an incarcerated individual." ...
JB Nicholas / The Freelance —Commissioner Daniel J. Martuscello III, of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, blew off the advocates’ concerns...
Nick Pinto, Hell Gate: New York's prison labor system, in which incarcerated people make everything from office furniture and uniforms to license plates and hand sanitizer, earning pennies an hour, is not some coercive analog of slavery, Acting Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III, who runs the state prison system, told a New York State Senate panel Monday. It's rehabilitative...
Austin C Jefferson, City & State NY: STATE CAPITOL — ANew York’s prison population has nearly halved since 1999, and there is a staffing shortage plaguing the state’s remaining facilities. But Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to close five more state prisons in the next fiscal year has still irked state legislative Republicans – who said the plan disregards public safety and prison worker livelihoods...
