“Being a mother in prison is like gasping for air.” – Jenisha Brown 💔 We must: ❌ End extreme sentencing ❌ Eliminate mandatory minimums ❤️ Bring our moms + kids home! Call your legislator NOW: bit.ly/CNCNY #CommunitiesNotCages

"This Mother’s Day, we don’t want empty gestures. We want policy for the people, not prisons and perpetual punishment." New York State must enact the Second Look Act, the Earned Time Act, and the Marvin Mayfield Act. #CommunitiesNotCages

GETTING STARTED: We’re joining NY Senate Correction Chair Salazar, Assembly Correction Chair Dilan, Robert Ricks (father of Robert Brooks) & other advocates to demand legislative action to address the racist brutality + murders by staff in NY prisons, including #ParoleJusticeNY.

We’re at The New York Women's Foundation #CelebratingWomenBreakfast supporting and uplifting the wonderful impact women and gender-expansive people are having on our communities.

Others of us are in Albany fighting to protect incarcerated parents & their kids—pushing for in-person visits, the CARE Act, a ban on shackling pregnant people, and access to breast pumping. #ShowYouCARE #ReproJustice

Stay tuned, our ED @serena5.bsky.social is testifying at today's joint public hearing about why the CARE Act is needed to ensure safety & equity for incarcerated women & their children. Watch the livestream to hear what our lawmakers are doing to ensure accountability & transparency

This morning as Chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections, I stood with Robert Brooks' father and advocates to formally renew the push toward passing serious prison reform legislation THIS legislative session. (1/several)

We are moved beyond words by the courage of Robert Ricks, Messiah Ramkissoon and Jessica Lawman, who in the midst of their grief, chose to testify about the brutal and harrowing killings of their loved ones by the New York State prison system. We demand #CommunitiesNotCages

We are in Albany with New Hour for a post-Mother's Day Advocacy Day to fight for legislation that protects the parent-child bond. Thanks to Charles D. Fall's team and J Gary Pretlow for hearing how important it is to pass legislation that protects the parent-child bond, because real

TODAY, Tanya Krupat, our Vice President of Policy & Advocacy, is testifying at the Joint Hearing of the Senate and Assembly Corrections Committees on the safety of individuals experiencing incarceration and transparency within state correctional facilities. Stay tuned to learn

"Pass the Earned Time Act. Pass the Second Look Act. Let’s build a justice system rooted not in punishment—but in possibility. We need a system that is responsive to change—not frozen in time." Thomas Gant, Community Organizer #CommunitiesNotCages

🧾 58 co-sponsors and counting for the Protect In-Person Visits bill, but we need more support to get it across the finish line. Urge your legislators to sign on and protect the right to in-person visits. Learn how to here: susu-osborne.org/protectvisits-…

UNIONS WANT #COMMUNITIESNOTCAGES. “According to statistics from New York’s Budget Division, our state currently has 473,000 unfilled jobs,” the letter reads. “This labor shortage has been exacerbated by the exclusion of people who are locked out of the workforce because of long

NEW: With New York's budget battle settled, it's time to focus on Parole Justice, write Sen. Julia Salazar and RAPP's Tracie Adams, both crime survivors. "Excessive imprisonment benefits no one, especially when we know that people have the capacity to change."

New by Sen. ⁦Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky)⁩ & ⁦Release Aging People in Prison Campaign⁩ leader Tracie on why we need #ParoleJustice in New York NOW. #FairAndTimelyParole #ElderParole #FreeOurElders #ParoleJusticeNY nydailynews.com/2025/05/16/new…

Commentary: People change. Take that into consideration when weighing parole. The Fair and Timely Parole Act and the Elder Parole Act would make the process fairer, writes a former state Parole Board commissioner. timesunion.com/opinion/articl… via @TimesUnion Release Aging People in Prison Campaign

MUST READ: “Violence & dehumanization have been normalized in NY prisons, but that is a policy choice,” said Thomas Gant, a community organizer for the nonprofit Center for Community Alternatives. “We can choose differently.” #CommunitiesNotCages  READ:nytimes.com/2025/05/14/nyr…

Thousands of New Yorkers are still incarcerated, even after completing their sentences, because our state’s parole process desperately needs reform. In a new New York Daily News op-ed, Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky) and advocate Tracie Adams lay out why New York must pass the Fair & Timely Parole Act

Join us this Wed. for our monthly meeting! LISJAN is a coalition of over 60 organizations & community members advocating for social & criminal justice reforms throughout NY. Join us 5/21 to hear what we’re about & share your ideas for a more just state: rebrand.ly/LISJANReg