RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Ethan Geringer-Sameth, Crain's NY Business — State lawmakers passed a bill to help incarcerated individuals receive Medicaid coverage upon release, but did nothing for aging prisoners wasting away behind bars and racking up the state’s medical tab...
Robert Abruzzese / Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn legislators, including State Sens. Julia Salazar and Gustavo Rivera, alongside Assemblymembers Maritza Davila and Latrice Walker, joined a group of 18 New York lawmakers on Monday in Albany to support parole reforms...
By: Eric Harvey, The Riverdale Press - Two incarceration-focused bills have advanced to the New York State Assembly Correction Committee. The elder parole legislation has been co-sponsored by 31 people, including state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Robert Jackson....
By: Rebecca C. Lewis and Shantel Destra, City & State New York - As state lawmakers sort out their end-of-session priorities, parole reform appears to be on the agenda for both chambers. The state Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee voted to advance legislation meant to make it easier for incarcerated people to get considered for parole. And the Assembly Correction Committee was set to move that bill, along with another that would make elderly inmates eligible to get parole.
June 7, 2021: Albany, NY Participants Highlight The Importance Of Passing The Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole Bills to Victims & Survivors
June 8, 2021: Darrell Camp, WSKG/NPR/PBS
June 7, 2021: Joshua Solomon, Times Union
March 11, 2021: Christopher Robbins, Gothamist
