RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Owen Young / Vanguard — (ALBANY, N.Y.) New York State spent a record $450.6 million on prison healthcare in 2025, according to a February report by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, even as the aging incarcerated population driving these costs reoffends at some of the lowest rates in the system and continues to be denied parole at increasing rates...
Rebecca C. Lewis / City & State NY — During his long career in the state Legislature, O’Donnell supported expanding parole – and soon, he’ll get to decide who deserves it...
Julia Salazar & Tracie Adams / NY Daily News — Thousands of New Yorkers who have served their time remain languishing behind bars. The systemic failure to release those ready to return home strains a dangerous carceral system and costs New York taxpayers billions of dollars every year. But we have safe and practical solutions available...
Austin C. Jefferson / City & State New York — New York finally has a budget, but there is still over a month left to go in the legislative session. State lawmakers covered a lot in the $254 billion spending plan, from public safety to education and housing. But other policy issues still remain on the docket...
Christina Green / NY Daily News — New York’s parole system is broken, unjust, and fiscally reckless. It undermines rehabilitation, drains taxpayer dollars, and worsens racial disparities — while failing to make our communities safer...
Zion Decoteau / News10 — The People’s Campaign for Parole Justice is pushing for passing two bills: the Elder Parole Bill and the Fair and Timely Parole Act. They want to ensure that reformed prisoners get another chance at life...
Nathan Porceng: New York Focus – ANTHONY DIXON was sure the parole commissioners would give him a “fair shake.” As a young man, Dixon was convicted of robbery, gun possession, and murder. After serving his minimum sentence of 30 years, he had extensive evidence of his transformation to present to the New York State Board of Parole...
By: Wyatt Stayner, ScheerPost — When Theresa Grady, 62, calls her husband in prison, she tries not to let her voice crack and does her best not to cry. Sometimes, though, her upbeat veneer fractures, she told Prison Journalism Project....
By: Serena Martin-Liguori, New York Nonprofit Media: Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, and along with gender-expansive people, often punished more harshly than others in prison.
May 26, 2022: Kathleen Pequeño and Leroy Taylor, Times Union
May 18, 2021: Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle
