RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Noah Powelson / Brooklyn Daily Eagle — A week after Governor Kathy Hochul enacted her first round of clemencies this year, 135 organizations co-signed and published a letter to state leaders demanding more be done to address “the urgent crisis of racist brutality, medical neglect and denial of basic dignity in New York State prisons.” ...
Rebecca C. Lewis / City & State NY — Criminal justice advocates are chafing at the exclusion of measures they say are necessary to respond to Robert Brooks’ death in a truly meaningful way...
Jeongyoon Han / WXXI News — Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly agreed late Monday on a set of prison reforms that would increase oversight in New York correctional facilities, months after the beating deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi at the hands of corrections officers while incarcerated...
Samra Brouk / Rochester Beacon — Currently, our prison system focuses only on punishment without considering its long-term consequences. Instead, we need to find ways to enable incarcerated people to grow and change. As chair of the Senate Mental Health Committee, I recognize that when we help individuals heal, we make our communities safer places to live...
Victor Pate / Syracuse.come — Correction officers brutally beat Robert Brooks to death on video camera. Less than three months later, officers beat 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi to death. This nonchalant brutality takes place daily in prisons across the state. For decades, officers have beaten and killed people, especially Black people, in New York’s prisons — including Leonard Strickland, Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Terry Cooper, John McMillon and countless others — and yet the racist system of brutality continues unabated...
Kate Lisa / Spectrum News — After speaking with legislative leaders Wednesday, Robert Ricks said he's a voice for his son Robert Brooks—the man whose death at Marcy Correctional Facility in December has been ruled a homicide...
Gregory Mingo: Vera Institute of Justice — Giving people in prisons the ability to learn more about the world outside—and the hope that they can reenter it—can pay extraordinary dividends...
By: Serena Martin-Liguori, New York Nonprofit Media: Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population, and along with gender-expansive people, often punished more harshly than others in prison.
