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Join others to advocate for change
Two opportunities to join other New Yorkers in demanding criminal justice reform, including passage of the SAFE Parole Act:
Posted on April 24, 2012
BUILDING BRIDGES APRIL 2012
People in prison weigh in on Parole Reform:
Posted on April 17, 2012
Building Bridges March 2012
Advocacy training workshop, Support from NYS criminal defense lawyers, Take action conference (NYC), Statement from Prisoner Org.
Posted on March 14, 2012
Why the Parole Board Needs Reforming
Letters from the wife and daughter of a man denied parole 5 times. His victims only know about the crime, not about the man today, and so they put pressure on the parole board not to release him. The SAFE Parole Act would let them see evidence of the changes he's made.
Posted on March 6, 2012
BUILDING BRIDGES FEBRUARY 2012
Parole Reform-relevant articles from Building Bridges, which is available online in other languages as well.
Posted on February 14, 2012
BUILDING BRIDGES DECEMBER 2011
Selected articles follow. To read the entire issue, please click on the link below.
Posted on February 4, 2012
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERIES,
NYS PAROLE REFORM CAMPAIGN IS PRESENTING A WORKSHOP AND YOU AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLATURE ARE INVITED
Posted on January 28, 2012
Taking it to the airwaves
On Thursday morning, January 26 from 10 to 11 AM, Judith Brink, director of Prison Action Network, will be a guest on Tell It Like It Is, a weekly radio program that "engages listeners in a conversation on issues of international, national, and local importance.
Posted on January 17, 2012
LATFOR implements law ending prison-based gerrymandering
After months of public concern that the New York Senate did not intend to implement the law ending prison-based gerrymandering, last night the redistricting taskforce, LATFOR, released the population data to be used for state and local redistricting, which counts incarcerated people at their home addresses.
Posted on January 10, 2012
SAFE Parole Act is now a bill in both houses of the legislature
Greetings to all who have been wanting the parole board to stop hitting parole applicants multiple times for the same thing: the nature of the crime.