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Noah Powelson / Queens Daily Eagle — With a little over a month until lawmakers return to Albany, lawmakers and advocates reignited a multi-year long effort to reform the parole process for elderly incarcerated individuals...
Jacob Kaye / Queens Daily Eagle — Tami Eldridge, a 51-year-old woman from Queens, has spent the past 25 years in a New York State prison...
Nick Reisman / Politico — CLEMENCY PLEA: Left-leaning advocates are pressuring Hochul to use her clemency powers amid a backlog of 1,600 applications...
Jon Campbell / Gothamist — Anthony Douglas, 67, and Franklyn Dominguez, 35, were pronounced dead after they were found unresponsive in their respective cells at the Ossining prison within a five-hour period Wednesday, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Thursday afternoon...
Jacob Kaye / Queens Daily Eagle — As the illegal strike by New York State prison guards entered its ninth day on Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul said enough was enough. The officers who had illegally walked off of their jobs in New York’s prisons over a week ago had yet to negotiate their return in good faith and were putting “the entire state at risk” by going AWOL, Hochul said...
Alton Lee / Hudson Valley Times — As a veteran, I’m offended that those who attacked our Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 were rewarded by President Trump with blanket pardons simply because of their unquestioning loyalty to him. As a formerly incarcerated person, I’m outraged that so many other people in prison, who have done tremendous work to turn their lives around and give back to society, still languish there without any such recognition....
Victoria Law, Truthout: We have a long way to go to bring justice to all the individuals who were harmed by the ‘tough on crime,’ zero-tolerance legislation passed in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s,” says Amy Povah, founder and director of CAN-DO Justice through Clemency, which advocates for people imprisoned on federal drug sentences...
Robert Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday that she has granted clemency to 16 individuals, including 12 pardons and four commutations. With these grants, Governor Hochul has now extended clemency to 36 individuals in 2023 alone, surpassing any previous year in her term...
The Vanguard Staff: The Davis Vanguard — NEW YORK CITY, NY – The United Nations special rapporteur on racism this week released, according to the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), a powerful statement charging the U.S. “makes it way too easy for people to receive death-by-incarceration prison sentences, especially Black and Latino people and women who are criminalized in the context of domestic violence. ..
November 3, 2023: Groups fighting Death By Incarceration traveled to Geneva to brief committee for its review of U.S. compliance with human rights treaty
By: Kaitlyn Kennedy, Tag24 • Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations often focuses on capital punishment when assessing countries' human rights records, but this year's Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on "the other death penalty" – death by incarceration...
By: Victoria Law The Nation - One day after New York Focus broke the story about the censorship policy, the state department announced that it would suspend the rule impeding creative endeavors in prisons
