RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Steve Zeidman, NY Daily News — Stanley Richards, New York City’s newly appointed Department of Correction commissioner, testified at a recent City Council hearing that Rikers Island was under acute strain and badly in need of an overhaul. In addition to the decaying physical structure, Richards highlighted a decrease in correction officer staffing levels such that people inside do not feel safe...
Carol Shapiro / The Marshall Project — Carol Shapiro joined the New York parole board to make change. Marathon days, copious paperwork and dysfunctional hearings brought her to tears...
By: Andre Ward, CityLImits, “We witness firsthand the challenges that our older participants face when they come to us, usually because they no longer have family to turn to after such long periods of incarceration: physical health issues that might be less severe if treated properly sooner; unaddressed trauma, greatly exacerbated by incarceration; lack of financial resources; and homelessness.”
August 31, 2022, Eduardo Cuevas, lohud.
Advocates in New York hope the case of Valerie Gaiter, who died in prison after 40 years behind bars, will help bring reform August 20, 2022: Gloria Oladipo,The Guardian
May, 2022: Jonathan S. Bor, HealthAffairs.org (Health Affairs, vol 41, no.5)
November 17, 2021: NY Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, AMNY Op-Ed
November 12, 2021: Ted Alcorn, New York Times
October 15, 2021: Ashley Hupfl, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
October 13, 2021: Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, lohud.
