RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Algis Baliunas, New York Times — I came of age as a prosecutor at the onset of the most punitive period in modern American history. It was the 1970s in Chicago, and President Richard Nixon spoke often of the urgency of getting drugs off our streets. Crime rates were high. Communities were under strain....
New York Times / Wesley Parnell — Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are menstrual products. Some have had their visitation rights suspended...
7 News WWNY / Lexi Bruening, 7 News Staff — WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - A recent New York Times investigation claims Robert Brooks may not be the first inmate in New York’s prison system to have died at the hands of corrections officers, reporting that others met a similar fate at state facilities years before...
Jan Ransom / New York Times — Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
Steve Zeidman / New York Times — President Trump is making shameless use of his constitutional clemency power, rewarding insurrectionists, cronies, campaign contributors and sundry others. But this is not the only problem. Mr. Trump’s acts of commission are paralleled by American governors’ acts of omission. Even though they control the bulk of the country’s prison population and typically have the power to grant clemency, many governors have consistently failed to exercise the power of forgiveness, to all of our detriment...
Charlene Allen & Cameron Rasmussen / INQUEST: To achieve justice beyond punishment, we must challenge the narrative that carceral violence is the only response to other forms of violence...
Schneider, Shapiro, Paul / NY Times Letters: Ms. Treen’s excellent essay raises a number of important issues, to which I’d like to add one more: prison education. If more incarcerated individuals were able to receive more education while behind bars, recidivism rates would almost certainly drop, and, eventually, the average age of the prison population would, too....
Barbara Hanson Treen, New York Times: As a New York State parole commissioner for 12 years, I evaluated the readiness for release and risk to public safety of more than 75,000 incarcerated people. I saw these changes in people every day.
Yet in spite of those transformations, the number of aging long-termers warehoused in prisons has only increased in recent years...
By: Kathryn Haslanger and Ruth K Finkelstein: New York Times • Re “Living Out the Twilight Years in Prison” (Opinion, Oct. 22), by Joseph Rodriguez and Carmilla Floyd, about older prisoners in California: In New York State, we, too, face a troubling paradox as the imprisoned older population grows rapidly...
By : Eduardo Cuevas, lohud. People of color are more likely to face discipline while incarcerated in New York prisons compared to their white counterparts — and disparities appear to have worsened, a new state Inspector General’s report found.
