RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
By: Wyatt Stayner, Prison Journalism Project, "The aging prison population has tripled in the past two decades. These facilities, which offer poor medical care and a stressful environment, are ill-equipped to handle their graying population"
May 9, 2022: Melissa Tanis, Amplified Voices: Criminal Legal Reform Advocates with Lived Experience (Spotify podcast)
April 25, 2022: Press Release SPEAKERS CALLED FOR PASSAGE OF THE ELDER PAROLE, FAIR & TIMELY PAROLE, AND FAIR ACCESS TO VICTIM COMPENSATION BILLS TO PROMOTE HEALING AND SAFETY AS …
October 13, 2021: Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, lohud.
October 11, 2021: Gloria Pazmino, Spectrum NY1 Exclusive
Center for Justice at Columbia University This report compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the …
June 28, 2021: Melissa Tanis, AMNY
April 22, 2021 — 10:00am: New York, New York Participants Highlighted Intersections of Parole Justice and Survivor Justice
By: susie day, CounterPunch - "My dad went to prison when I was five. I think we visited him a couple times while he was in jail, before he was sentenced. After that, I didn’t have contact with him since I was six or seven years old..."
