RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Jeongyoon Han/ WXXI NEWS / NPR — The state’s parole board is 33% less likely to release a person of color than a white person, according to a report by the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University analyzing data from 2022 to March 2025...
BK Reader Staff / BK Reader — A report by the New York University School of Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law flagged racial disparities in the New York State Parole Board's release decisions...
Reuven Blau / The City — Black and Hispanic people in New York state prisons have a much higher chance to be denied parole than whites over the past three years — a divide that’s gotten worse since being highlighted in 2016, a new study shows...
By: Graham Rayman, New York Daily News - During the first four months of 2023, the state Parole Board released 45% of white prisoners who appeared before it, compared to 32.4% of all people of color who had hearings, researchers at NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law and the Vera Institute found...
