RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
By: Samantha Max, Gothamist: Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned nine people and commuted the sentences of four others on Wednesday — a year after she last granted several New Yorkers clemency — and pledged to continue to do so “on an ongoing basis," despite having not done so for a year.
By: Victoria Law, Truthout: Across the U.S., people in prison are hoping for compassion — and clemency — allowing them to rejoin their loved ones.
By: Jacob Kaye, Queens Daily Eagle
By : Eduardo Cuevas, lohud. People of color are more likely to face discipline while incarcerated in New York prisons compared to their white counterparts — and disparities appear to have worsened, a new state Inspector General’s report found.
By: News 12 Staff Incarceration advocates, former inmates and the friends and family of current inmates rallied outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in Manhattan on Monday, calling for changes to the state’s prison …
January 25, 2022: Ted Remsnyder, NNY360
By: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders “The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons …
January 25, 2022: THERESA GRADY, JEANNIE COLON, LISETTE NIEVES and NAWANNA TUCKER, NY Daily News
November 17, 2021: NY Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, AMNY Op-Ed
November 10, 2021: Henry Rosoff, News 10
