August 31, 2022, Eduardo Cuevas, lohud.
As summers get hotter, incarcerated people swelter inside NY prisonsRead More
As summers get hotter, incarcerated people swelter inside NY prisons
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Heart Failure: Medical Runaround Keeps Man Locked in State Prison Two Years After Being Paroled
August 7, 2022: Reuven Blau, The City
The Graying of America’s Prison Population
June 23, 2022: Audrey Nielson, The Crime Report
I Joined the Parole Board to Make a Difference. Now I Call It ‘Conveyor Belt Justice.’
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 as told to Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
I Joined the Parole Board to Make a Difference. Now I Call It ‘Conveyor Belt Justice.’Read More
Protestors erect prison graveyard outside New York Capitol amid prison crisis
June 1, 2022: Isabel Song Beer, AMNY
Protestors erect prison graveyard outside New York Capitol amid prison crisisRead More
How the pandemic affected incarcerated people and their loved one
While incarcerated people were left to suffer behind prison walls during the first waves of the pandemic, their families were left to worry in the dark
May 16, 2022: Aiyuba Thomas and Tommaso Bardelli, Prism
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Letter to New York Legislators: Pass The Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole Bills to Protect Public Health
“On February 24, 2022, we sent a letter to the leadership of the New York State legislature in support of two bills, the Elder Parole Bill and the Fair and Timely Parole Bill, that would reduce the number of people in New York State prisons and thus lessen the risk of COVID in state prison facilities.“
February 24, 2022: UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project
Lawmakers must finally make elder parole reform
February 14, 2022: Jessica Altagracia Woolford, The Riverdale Press
Zombie Commissioners and Antiquated Structure Poses Hurdles for Parole Reform
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
Zombie Commissioners and Antiquated Structure Poses Hurdles for Parole ReformRead More
First COVID death confirmed at Greene Correctional Facility
January 25, 2022: Ted Remsnyder, NNY360
First COVID death confirmed at Greene Correctional FacilityRead More
RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal
“The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons once every three days on average. In fact, a recent report from Columbia University found more people have died in our state’s prisons in the last 10 years than the total number of people executed during the more than 350 years in which New York applied the death penalty….”
January 25, 2022: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders
Union awaits prison visitation results
January 22, 2022: Ted Remsnyder, HudsonValley360/Columbia-Greene Media
New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps Rising
“In the months ahead, policy makers should carefully examine opportunities to reduce the population of incarcerated individuals age 50 and above.“
January, 2022: NY State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli
New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps RisingRead More
New York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen Centers
December 23, 2021: Errol Louis, Intelligencer, New York magazine
New York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen CentersRead More
Commentary: Parole bills offer a path to healing and to gender justice
December 15, 2021: Anna Kelles and Jessica González-Rojas, Times Union
Commentary: Parole bills offer a path to healing and to gender justiceRead More