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Freed from a double-life sentence, a long-imprisoned New Yorker urges Albany to find relief for others

May 19, 2022, Arun Venugopal, Gothamist

Gregory Mingo, 69, served nearly 4 decades in prison before former Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted his 50-year sentence. Mingo was convicted in the 1980 murders of Queens residents James Parker and Karen Sheets. He has always maintained his innocence.
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RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal

“The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons once every three days on average. In fact, a recent report from Columbia University found more people have died in our state’s prisons in the last 10 years than the total number of people executed during the more than 350 years in which New York applied the death penalty….”

January 25, 2022: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders

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