RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Holden Draper, Hoodline — As the legislative session wound down in Albany, lawmakers quietly signed off on a bill that could change the first days of freedom for thousands of New Yorkers leaving jails and prisons. The measure aims to plug a deadly gap in health care coverage the moment someone walks out the gate, a move that reentry advocates are cheering even as their push for broader parole reforms hit a wall...
Robert Abruzzese / Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Lawmakers and advocates from Brooklyn, including individuals who were formerly incarcerated, held a press conference in Albany on Monday to discuss the importance of parole justice for families in the state...
Nick Pinto, Hell Gate: New York's prison labor system, in which incarcerated people make everything from office furniture and uniforms to license plates and hand sanitizer, earning pennies an hour, is not some coercive analog of slavery, Acting Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III, who runs the state prison system, told a New York State Senate panel Monday. It's rehabilitative...
By: Andre Ward, CityLImits, “We witness firsthand the challenges that our older participants face when they come to us, usually because they no longer have family to turn to after such long periods of incarceration: physical health issues that might be less severe if treated properly sooner; unaddressed trauma, greatly exacerbated by incarceration; lack of financial resources; and homelessness.”
