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Led by formerly incarcerated people and family members of people in prison, RAPP works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences. Learn more: https://rappcampaign.com
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Today, NYSDOCCS identified 15 guards & sergeants under investigation for the brutal murder of Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State prison.

RAPP Leader Alton Lee, a survivor of Mid-State: I know 7 of them, all known to be part of a goon squad that brutalizes incarcerated people. 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Today, NYSDOCCS identified 15 guards & sergeants under investigation for the brutal murder of Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State prison.

RAPP Leader Alton Lee, a survivor of Mid-State: I know 7 of them, all known to be part of a goon squad that brutalizes incarcerated people. 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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NEW: Former prosecutor Christina Green writes in Newsday why New York should enact the Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills.

“Ultimately, we must recognize when continued incarceration serves no purpose beyond simply warehousing a person.” www.newsday.com/opinion/comm...
It's time we made parole in NYS smarter and fairer
NY's parole system leans toward unnecessary incarceration, keeping many aging inmates behind bars long after they've paid their debt.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Another incarcerated person was brutally slain by prison guards in a facility just across the street from Marcy Prison, where guards murdered Robert Brooks. Guards even made incarcerated people clean up the blood. The incarcerated people are the ones who are not safe.

Our statement:
“We grieve for the beloved family who lost their loved one to this ongoing crisis. When prison guards with a long history of inflicting racist brutality and sexual violence feel emboldened and even above the law, tragedies like this one are inevitable – and they will continue. Prison walls have long shielded guards from accountability for extreme violence and murder, even when their crimes make the front page of The New York Times. Now that the world has seen their brutality in horrific detail in the video of Robert Brooks, and now that lawmakers feel an obligation to rein in these atrocities, guards are engaging in an illegal work stoppage as a distraction. To put it more bluntly, guards are holding hostage tens of thousands of incarcerated people, whose basic survival needs are often going unmet, in order to demand even more power to harm those in their custody. This murder is just the latest example of why they must not be granted that power. The incarcerated people are the ones who are not safe. They are victims of routine brutality and constant deprivations of their civil rights. The incarcerated men who witnessed the guards murdering this man were forced to clean the blood off the floor. The message that guards are sending is clear and cannot be ignored. In the interest of justice and safety, we need to completely dismantle this system and, led by crime survivors and formerly incarcerated people, build a true system of accountability and healing. In the meantime, we need to do all we can to protect human rights behind bars––including by finally and fully implementing the HALT Solitary Confinement Law and enacting the Rights Behind Bars and End Qualified Immunity bills––and create pathways to release by enacting the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills, along with the Second Look Act and the Earned Time Act. Most urgently, Gov. Hochul must use her executive clemency powers expansively to release community-ready individuals.” “We grieve for the beloved f…
March 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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To help relieve the prison crisis, Gov Hochul should use her clemency powers.

“She has the opportunity to make a statement, not only for the communities that are impacted, but for the illegal strikers, that she's going to resort to humane solutions.” queenseagle.com/all/2025/2/2...
February 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"Guards are on strike because the world saw the video of 14-16 guards lynching a Black man [Robert Brooks]. This illegal strike is to erase the consciousness we're building to dismantle the racial brutality & sexual violence in the prison system that's been going on for decades."-RAPP's Jose Saldana
February 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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José Saldaña & Ori Burton talk about the NY State prison guards' wildcat strike, solitary confinement & other forms of prison violence:: @rappcampaign.bsky.social
Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism
We speak with Jose Saldaña, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about a wildcat strike by New York prison guards who claim limits on solitary confinement have made their work more dangerous. “...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Thank you NAACP of NYS for your solidarity against torture.

Read their statement and more critical reporting on the human rights crisis in NY prisons created by guards seeking to distract from their co-workers' murder of Robert Brooks. nydailynews.com/2025/02/25/n... via @grahamrayman.bsky.social
NAACP slams move to suspend parts of law on solitary as inmates decry conditions amid strike
The NAACP board said they are “profoundly disturbed” over the governor’s decision to suspend elements of the HALT solitary law during the wildcat prison guard strike.
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February 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“The issue is not understaffing but overincarceration. Passing the Elder Parole bill would directly relieve NYSDOCCS, particularly the urgent medical needs of elderly individuals, during strikes." via @grahamrayman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/23/i...
Inmate, 61, in upstate N.Y. prison dies in midst of corrections’ officers’ wildcat strike
A state prisoner died early Saturday at Auburn Correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region — in the midst of the correction officers’ wildcat strike now entering its seventh day — amid allegat…
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February 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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JOIN US: Thurs. @ 11am, we're rallying in NYC + Albany to demand an end to prison abuse. Guards have been brutalizing, sexually assaulting & killing Black and brown people in New York's prisons for decades. We are demanding basic rights for incarcerated people, real pathways to release & more.
Flyer: Rally Against Prison Abuse - A Call to Action. Thursday, Feb. 20 at 11am. Outside Governor Hochul's NYC Office - 919 Third Avenue in Manhattan. Red background with image of people speaking out in greyscale. Text: Join families of incarcerated people and lawmakers to demand an end to brutality and sexual assaults by prison guards. Flyer: Rally Against Prison Abuse - A Call to Action. Thursday, Feb. 20 at 11am. In Albany, by the I heart NY sign at the security entrance to the Capitol, inside the Concourse. Black background with image of people speaking out in greyscale. Text: Join families of incarcerated people and lawmakers to demand an end to brutality and sexual assaults by prison guards.
February 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Our first post on blue sky! We are the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign and we fight for the release of older people (and all people) in prison by advocating for meaningful opportunities for release through parole and clemency.

Learn more and join our work: rappcampaign.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM