Theresa Grady

“Holding on to Love” • Theresa Grady on Loss, Healing, and Justice, via Legal Aid Radio 📻

May 10, 2026 by susie day

Debra Sterling Walters • Theresa Grady, Legal Aid Radio — On this episode of Legal Aid Radio, Theresa Grady shares the story of her husband, Morris Edward Grady, her first love and lifelong partner, whose life was cut short while incarcerated. Through heartbreak, she continues to rise as a voice for justice, fighting for dignity and fair treatment for aging people behind bars. It’s a powerful reminder that behind every sentence is a human being… and behind every loss is a family still learning how to heal...

Bliss and Blisters: The Gradys Joined by Love, Separated by Conviction

April 20, 2026 by susie day

Latasha Danielle Drax, Love Beyond the Wall — It was a Thursday when Morris Edward Grady told his beloved wife that he would call the following day. On Friday, February 13th, Theresa waited with anticipation for her husband's call. Valentine’s Day 2026 would be the celebration of their 18th wedding anniversary—a marriage of bliss but not without blisters....

Advocates call for clemency ahead of the holidays

December 4, 2023 by susie day

Marisa Marcellino and Adolfo Carrion: News12 Brooklyn – Advocates rallied outside of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in Manhattan on Monday, calling for clemency for incarcerated women ahead of the holidays...

Dying Behind Bars — Another Form of Capital Punishment

November 3, 2023 by susie day

By: Wyatt Stayner, ScheerPost — When Theresa Grady, 62, calls her husband in prison, she tries not to let her voice crack and does her best not to cry. Sometimes, though, her upbeat veneer fractures, she told Prison Journalism Project....

Lawmakers champion crime reduction by formerly incarcerated leaders

October 23, 2023 by susie day

By: Rob Abruzzese, Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In anticipation of the 2024 New York State Legislative Session, a group of state lawmakers, violence interrupters and advocates converged to honor the crime reduction endeavors of previously incarcerated individuals and families of those still in prison...

Dying Behind Bars — Another Form of Capital Punishment

May 4, 2023 by susie day

By: Wyatt Stayner, Prison Journalism Project, "The aging prison population has tripled in the past two decades. These facilities, which offer poor medical care and a stressful environment, are ill-equipped to handle their graying population"

Fighting new prison care package ban

December 1, 2022 by Melissa Tanis

By: Deirdre Bardolf, Assoc. Ed., Queens Chronicle Lawmakers and advocates gathered outside the Queensboro Correctional Facility in Long Island City on Tuesday to condemn a directive from the state Department …

Rally to change New York state prison system held by incarceration advocates, former inmates

November 21, 2022 by Melissa Tanis

By: News 12 Staff Incarceration advocates, former inmates and the friends and family of current inmates rallied outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in Manhattan on Monday, calling for changes to the state’s prison …

Proposed rules on packages, mail to Rikers detainees draw fire; NYC seeks changes to stem drugs flowing to jails

November 5, 2022 by Melissa Tanis

November 5, 2022, Graham Rayman, New York Daily News

How the pandemic affected incarcerated people and their loved one

May 18, 2022 by susie day

While incarcerated people were left to suffer behind prison walls during the first waves of the pandemic, their families were left to worry in the dark May 16, 2022: Aiyuba …

RAPP Testimony for FY 2022-23 Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Public Protection Budget Proposal

January 25, 2022 by susie day

By: Theresa Grady, Jeannie Colon, Lisette Nieves and Nawanna Tucker, RAPP Community Leaders “The crisis of mass incarceration is at a boiling point, with people dying in New York’s prisons …

New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Execution Era

October 13, 2021 by susie day

Center for Justice at Columbia University This report compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the …