RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Sarah Kliff / New York Times — When the letter arrived at Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying that he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it. Over the 33 years he had been locked up for murder, multiple sclerosis had taken much of his vision and left him reliant on a wheelchair...
Amanda D’Ambrosio: Crain’s New York Business – DLegislators and aging advocates are pressing state health officials to include elder parole reform in the state’s Master Plan for Aging—an effort they say is critical to address the health crisis for older New Yorkers in prisons....
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...
May 13, 2021, 10:00 a.m. Fmr. NYC Aging Commissioner, NY Assembly Aging Committee Chair Ron Kim & Other Experts Gather as Part of ‘Parole Justice Is Elder Justice’ Advocacy Day …
