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Advocates tout Black History Month in push for legislative parole reform
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Exterior of the Greene Correctional Facility prison on Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Coxsackie, N.Y. Greene County is experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases that local health officials say stem from an outbreak at the state prison. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
ALBANY Academics, activists and lawmakers pressed for legislative changes to New York s parole system in a Tuesday Zoom event, hosted to coincide with Black History Month and highlight the ways that the American legal system has historically entangled Black Americans at much higher rates than whites.
Activists, lawmakers announce campaign to pass two parole reform bills
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A coalition of more than 25 New York lawmakers and 250 of the state’s criminal and social justice reform groups announced project called the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice to pass two bills to reform New York s parole process. Pictured: a guard tower and barbed wire fencing standing outside Sing Sing prison, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 in Ossining, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Mark Lennihan
ALBANY A coalition of more than 25 New York lawmakers and 250 of the state’s criminal and social justice reform groups announced Thursday they are pressing two pieces of legislation this year that would reshape the parole process in New York.
The lawsuit accuses New York of deliberate indifference in its treatment of nearly 100 inmates transferred to an upstate prison lacking basic protocols to curb the virus.
Two dead from coronavirus at Coxsackie prison
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Exterior of the Coxsackie Correctional Facility prison on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Coxsackie, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
ALBANY Two incarcerated people died of COVID-19 at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in Greene County over the weekend, bringing the coronavirus death toll in state prisons to six over the last three weeks.
As a congregate setting where it s more difficult to socially distance, prison populations are at increased risk for the spread of COVID-19. New York s death rate for its prison population has also soared past the national average, which in September, before the current surge, was calculated at 46-per-100,000. Johns Hopkins University and University of Wisconsin researchers found that the overall death rate for federal and state prisons is 39 deaths per 100,000 lower than the state’s results.