The Legislature must reform N.Y. prisons
Nick Encalada-Malinowski, NY Daily News — With multiple delays and policy maneuvering, Gov. Hochul bullied the Legislature into the budget of her liking....
Bliss and Blisters: The Gradys Joined by Love, Separated by Conviction
Latasha Danielle Drax, Love Beyond the Wall — It was a Thursday when Morris Edward Grady told his beloved wife that he would call the following day. On Friday, February 13th, Theresa waited with anticipation for her husband's call. Valentine’s Day 2026 would be the celebration of their 18th wedding anniversary—a marriage of bliss but not without blisters....
Legal advocates decry conditions at New York’s only maximum-security prison for women
Nora Mishanec, Times Union, Yahoo News — (EDFORD) A coalition of nonprofits this week joined a growing chorus of concern over what advocates consider "dangerous and deteriorating" conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the state's only maximum-security prison for women...
They, Too, Died After Beatings by Guards. No One Raised an Alarm.
Jan Ransom / New York Times — Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
Trends In Inmate Aging: A Look At New York’s Prisons
Yasmin Young / WBLK 93.7 — Some prisons in New York have quite a few senior citizens incarcerated in them. While many of us may not think of grey-haired grandparent types as criminals, there's a healthy number of prisoners aged 55 and older in New York State prisons. Either they got locked up at a young age but are serving long or life sentences, or they got into a life of crime at a ripe old age...
First COVID death confirmed at Greene Correctional Facility
January 25, 2022: Ted Remsnyder, NNY360
RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal
By: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders “The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons …
Let more aging New Yorkers out of prison
January 25, 2022: THERESA GRADY, JEANNIE COLON, LISETTE NIEVES and NAWANNA TUCKER, NY Daily News
New York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen Centers
December 23, 2021: Errol Louis, Intelligencer, New York magazine
About 1,300 died in NY state prisons in the last decade, research shows
October 13, 2021: Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, lohud.