RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
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...
Rebecca McCray / Hell Gate — On Monday morning, state correction officers trickled back to work following a three-week-long wildcat strike that affected nearly all of the state’s 42 prisons and caused disruptions in meals, medication distribution, education and rec programming, and effectively confined incarcerated people to their cells for nearly 24 hours a day in some facilities. Over the course of the strike, seven incarcerated people died, including 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi of the Bronx, who was reportedly beaten to death by correction officers who have since been placed on leave...
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...
November 8, 2021: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News 1
