Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
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Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
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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
...In addition, to begin the transformation of the prison environment, she must support the Rights Behind Bars bill and finally implement the HALT Solitary Law.”

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March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...That is why Governor Hochul must support legislation like the Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole bills and expansively use her powers of executive clemency...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...Governor Hochul cannot erase the longstanding and ongoing crisis of brutality by removing a handful of guards. The best way to help ensure the safety of incarcerated people is to provide pathways to release...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...In addition to firing all the guards who took part in these murders or helped to cover them up, real accountability means uprooting this entire rotten system and building a new one that truly serves the cause of justice and healing...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...What I’m sharing today took place in just two prisons. DOCCS operates 42 of them. The reality is that only a small fraction of the racist violence routinely committed by prison guards gets reported in the press, and the state has never pursued real accountability...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...Joshua Bartlett, who is one of the guards suspended for the killing of Messiah Nantwi, took part in both of those earlier killings, as Building 10 was his post. Like the other named guards and sergeants, he had a long history of viciously brutalizing people...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...What has not yet been reported is that at least two other people were brutally killed by guards in this solitary confinement unit at Mid-State just while I was incarcerated there from 2018 to 2020...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...These are locations without cameras – and that’s why the racist lynch mobs hired and trained by DOCCS would beat, stomp and choke people there...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
RAPP Leader Alton: “At Mid-State prison, they would take people to Building 10, which is a SHU block, or solitary confinement. At Marcy, across the street from Mid-State, they would take people to a small room in the gym and then the infirmary, where Robert Brooks was lynched...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...as well as Sergeants Donald Slawson and Michael Iffert, all from Mid-State. From Marcy, guards Craig Klemick, Tristan Sheppard, Thomas Eck, and Nicholas Vitale have also been placed on leave.
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The suspended guards are Joshua Bartlett & Sergeant Francis Chandler from Mid-State, & Zachary Lallier from Marcy. Those placed on leave include guards Frank Jacobs, Adam Joseph, Jonah Levi, Nathan Palmer, Caleb Blair, and Daniel Burger, ...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM