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Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
Nora Mishanec, Times Union, Yahoo News — (EDFORD) A coalition of nonprofits this week joined a growing chorus of concern over what advocates consider "dangerous and deteriorating" conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the state's only maximum-security prison for women...
Reuven Blau / The City — A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations of solitary confinement reforms as the legislature weighs more than $4 billion in funding...
Brendan J. Lyons / Times Union — Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration and union representing more than 13,000 correction officers reach a tentative agreement ...
JB Nicholas / The Freelance —Commissioner Daniel J. Martuscello III, of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, blew off the advocates’ concerns...
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...
Reuven Blau / The City — Black and Hispanic people in New York state prisons have a much higher chance to be denied parole than whites over the past three years — a divide that’s gotten worse since being highlighted in 2016, a new study shows...
By: Kate Lisa, Spectrum News 1 Lawmakers took a hard look Wednesday at proposed legislation to reform New York state’s parole system and make it easier for incarcerated people to …
Governor Kathy Hochul says she will finally fill vacancies on the state’s parole board, opening the potential to shift from presumptive detention February 8, 2022: Nick Pinto, New York Focus/Bolts
