Advocates pushing for sentencing reform gathered outside the capital Wednesday to call on lawmakers to pass three bills introduced in last year s legislative session the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums
Advocates, lawmakers and impacted families plan on holding seven rallies across the state on Wednesday in support of a package of bills that would eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing, allow incarcerated people to petition for resentencing and encouraging rehabilitation through the expansion of “good time” and “merit time” laws.
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This month marks the three-year anniversary of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, which was passed after a decade of visionary organizing by currently and formerly incarcerated survivors and our allies. The legislation is the first sentencing reform of its kind in the country. It allows judges to sentence survivors of abuse to prison terms shorter than required by mandatory minimums and, in some cases, to community-based alternatives to incarceration.