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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

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Letter to New York Legislators: Pass The Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole Bills to Protect Public HealthRead More

Lawmakers must finally make elder parole reform

February 14, 2022: Jessica Altagracia Woolford, The Riverdale Press

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Lawmakers must finally make elder parole reformRead More

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

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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

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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

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RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget ProposalRead More

Union awaits prison visitation results

January 22, 2022: Ted Remsnyder, HudsonValley360/Columbia-Greene Media

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Union awaits prison visitation resultsRead More

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

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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

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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

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Commentary: Parole bills offer a path to healing and to gender justiceRead More

Parole reform isn’t done

November 17, 2021: NY Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, AMNY Op-Ed

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Parole reform isn’t doneRead More

Prison officials to close 6 facilities in New York state

November 8, 2021: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News 1

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Prison officials to close 6 facilities in New York stateRead More

Morir en una prisión neoyorquina, la nueva pena de muerte

October 25, 2021: Agencia EFE

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Morir en una prisión neoyorquina, la nueva pena de muerteRead More

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