Never Too Old to Start Over
When released, older incarcerated people have incredibly low recidivism rates—yet are still routinely denied parole and clemency. Organizers in New York are trying to change that.
8 posts in ‘decarceral legislation’
When released, older incarcerated people have incredibly low recidivism rates—yet are still routinely denied parole and clemency. Organizers in New York are trying to change that.
When parole boards are allowed to give the original crime more weight than proof of change, they become an absurdist theater of foregone conclusions.
Convincing New Mexico to stop sentencing children to die in prison required us to let go of “us” versus “them” politics.
California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials.
Connecting it to the fight for disability rights has helped activists in California to make exciting progress in their effort to end solitary confinement.
A close analysis of prison data can help us think concretely, and strategically, about the tradeoffs of different approaches to decarceration and prison closures.
Everyone is redeemable. For that reason, I won’t stop fighting for those people our governor and the legislature have left to die in our prisons.
Older New Yorkers are dying in state prison at an alarming rate. Once and for all, they need to come home to their families.