Campaign News + Press

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July 29, 2025, Inquest

“If we are not releasing prisoners who have embraced rehabilitative values, then we are intentionally undercutting the legislative intent of second chances through parole release.”

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With you, the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice and partners will keep fighting—and we will pass the Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole bills and other bills promoting the actual release of incarcerated people.

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June 11, 2025, City & State

““Governor Hochul failed to nominate a single formerly incarcerated person, despite countless among us being highly qualified,” Salanda said in a statement. In addition to O’Donnell, Hochul also nominated Jose Gomere, a former police commissioner; Elizabeth Kase, a cannabis attorney, defense lawyer and former prosecutor; and Darlene Grant Bruce, an attorney who has served as a federal special master over prisons and been involved with community services in Harlem.”

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June 11, 2025, City & State

““Yesterday, both houses of the Legislature conferenced a legislative package/omnibus bill that, whatever its merits, leaves every single one of the ~32,300 imprisoned New Yorkers behind in the very system that murdered Robert Brooks and countless others,” Saldana wrote.”

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