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November 16, 2024, BK Reader
A newly released report by the New York University School of Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law titled Freedom Delayed, Justice Denied: Increasing Racial Disparities in New York State’s Parole Release Decisions, highlighted widening gaps in parole outcomes between people of color and white individuals during Governor Kathy Hochul’s tenure.
November 15, 2024, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“The purpose of our parole system is supposed to be to evaluate a person’s readiness for release, not to perpetuate punishment. Parole determinations should be based on who a person is today and what they have done to transform. We must uproot racial bias from our state and system.”
November 11, 2024, The City
“The commissioner reviewing my case was white,” said Deb, who asked that her last name be withheld. “I’m Black. I’ve seen the data in this report and I have the lived experience and I have no doubt racial bias played a role in my denials.”
November 8, 2024, The Marshall Project
After a long career in criminal justice reform, Carol Shapiro agreed to become a New York parole board commissioner. Two years into her five-year term, she was exhausted by 12-hour days, reams of paperwork, risk-averse colleagues and videoconference hearings with prisoners that seemed dysfunctional by design.
This essay, voiced by Shapiro and animated by Lily Padula, Chelsea Beck and K Downs, is part of “Inside Story,” The Marshall Project’s groundbreaking video series distributed online and in correctional facilities across the U.S.
September 20, 2024, New York Focus
““Everything is last minute. Parole commissioners have to travel to sit in a parole office — they’re not going into a prison, except for a few times — to read the materials and then conduct the hearing over video. New York is neanderthal in its use of technology; if you had a different kind of automated system, you might get materials ahead of time. I don’t know how much justice you can do when you’re short staffed in terms of commissioners, and you’re going through a lot of cases very quickly. This is someone’s life.”.”