RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Nora Mishanec, Times Union, Yahoo News — (EDFORD) A coalition of nonprofits this week joined a growing chorus of concern over what advocates consider "dangerous and deteriorating" conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the state's only maximum-security prison for women...
Noah Powelson / Brooklyn Daily Eagle — A week after Governor Kathy Hochul enacted her first round of clemencies this year, 135 organizations co-signed and published a letter to state leaders demanding more be done to address “the urgent crisis of racist brutality, medical neglect and denial of basic dignity in New York State prisons.” ...
Sarah Kliff / New York Times — When the letter arrived at Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying that he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it. Over the 33 years he had been locked up for murder, multiple sclerosis had taken much of his vision and left him reliant on a wheelchair...
Robert Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The New York City Council has taken a significant step towards criminal justice reform by passing a resolution which urges the New York State Legislature and Governor Kathy Hochul to enact the Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills...
January 4, 2022: Gwynne Hogan, WNYC/Gothamist
August 18, 2021: Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, lohud.
