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Local prison reform advocates recognized, call for passage of reform bills in state senate

November 15, 2023 by susie day

Thomas O'Neil-White: WBFO-FM 88.7 • BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Elder Parole bill would grant an automatic parole hearing to an incarcerated person 55 years and older who has served 15 years of their sentence...

Read moreLocal prison reform advocates recognized, call for passage of reform bills in state senate

A call for Passage of Elder Parole Legislation

November 15, 2023 by susie day

Claudine Ewing: 2WGRZ-TV • BUFFALO, N.Y. — According to the State Corrections, 15% of Erie County residents in state prisons are age 55 or older. Many of them were locked up when they were just young people...

Read moreA call for Passage of Elder Parole Legislation

State comptroller: Aging prison population means higher costs for New York

January 13, 2022 by susie day

January 13, 2022: The Citizen staff, The Citizen/auburnpub.com

Read moreState comptroller: Aging prison population means higher costs for New York

New York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen Centers

December 24, 2021 by susie day

December 23, 2021: Errol Louis, Intelligencer, New York magazine

Read moreNew York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen Centers

Commentary: Parole bills offer a path to healing and to gender justice

December 15, 2021 by susie day

December 15, 2021: Anna Kelles and Jessica González-Rojas, Times Union

Read moreCommentary: Parole bills offer a path to healing and to gender justice

How Former Prisoners View the Parole System

November 18, 2021 by susie day

November 17, 2021: Film by Jon Miller and Zach Russo; text by Sumit Poudyal, The New Yorker

Read moreHow Former Prisoners View the Parole System

More older New Yorkers dying in prison — even as overall deaths drop

October 13, 2021 by susie day

October 12, 2021: Noah Goldberg, New York Daily News

Read moreMore older New Yorkers dying in prison — even as overall deaths drop

New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

October 13, 2021 by susie day

Center for Justice at Columbia University This report compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the …

Read moreNew York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

Elderly prisoners pose little risk, so why won’t the state let some of them free?

October 3, 2021 by susie day

October 2, 2021: The Editorial Board, Boston Globe

Read moreElderly prisoners pose little risk, so why won’t the state let some of them free?

Op-Ed | We must end death by incarceration

May 8, 2021 by susie day

The death penalty has been banned in New York since 1984, but the new death penalty is long sentences without opportunity for parole. This is death-by-incarceration. Death-by-incarceration does not make …

Read moreOp-Ed | We must end death by incarceration

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