RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
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...
Rebecca C. Lewis / City & State — More than 130 advocacy groups – including the WFP, NAACP New York Conference and Release Aging People in Prison – called on the governor to reduce the state's prison population...
Mohamed Taguine / NYCLU — New Yorkers aren’t clamoring for more police, nor are they buying politicians’ tough-on-crime messages and policies. Instead, they are eager for policies that advance crime prevention over punishment and move away from over-policing — which they don’t see as making communities safer...
Orisanmi Burton / Inquest — New York state prison guards have been on strike since February 17. The strike began in part as a result of attempts by the state to prosecute the death of Robert Brooks, a forty-three-year-old Black father who was serving a twelve-year prison sentence at Marcy Correctional Facility when he was fatally beaten by guards on December 9, 2024...
May 6, 2022: Jeff Morris, The Record-Review
