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Noah Powelson, Queens Daily Eagle — Gov. Hochul vowed to reform the clemency process and grant executive clemency on a rolling basis, a promise many advocates accused her of walking back...
Nexstar Media, Inc. — ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Criminal justice advocates rallied at the state Capitol Thursday, accusing Governor Kathy Hochul of hypocrisy for demanding federal accountability while ignoring deaths in New York state prisons. While they demonstrated outside her office, Daniel Martuscello III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, testified down the hall before the legislature at a budget hearing on public protection...
Jerome Wright / Open Letter — To Gov. Hochul and the NYS Legislature, from a survivor of solitary confinement, responding to Hochul's capitulation to the illegal demands of DOCCS and members of NYSCOBA, in an attempt to abrogate the HALT Solitary Law and divert attention from the brutal and racist lynching of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility...
JB Nicholas / The Freelance —Commissioner Daniel J. Martuscello III, of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, blew off the advocates’ concerns...
Thomas O'Neil-White: WBFO-FM 88.7 • BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Elder Parole bill would grant an automatic parole hearing to an incarcerated person 55 years and older who has served 15 years of their sentence...
Claudine Ewing: 2WGRZ-TV • BUFFALO, N.Y. — According to the State Corrections, 15% of Erie County residents in state prisons are age 55 or older. Many of them were locked up when they were just young people...
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....
November 11, 2022, Reuven Blau,The City
June 1, 2021: Deacon Jerome Wright, The Buffalo News
May 29, 2021: Dan Schrack, WHAM/ABC
