Today, CCA leaders are testifying at the Senate and Assembly’s joint hearing on the “Safety of Persons in Custody, Transparency, and Accountability within State Correctional Facilities.” In advance, we held a press conference with CCA leaders Thomas Gant, Robert Ricks and Sammy

NEW: Prison reform was the topic of an all-day hearing last week, where Robert Ricks, Robert Brooks’s father, advocated for legislation to expand prison oversight and make it easier to hold abusive officers to account. nysfocus.com/2025/05/19/new…

Corrections unions know earned time promotes responsibility and safety. “I believe if they earn the right to leave prison early, they'll behave better. Programing works. You don’t ever hear us complain about it.” – Matt Keogh, Vice President, NYSCOBA. Governor Kathy Hochul,

New York’s racist, unjust sentencing laws have a longer and darker history than most people realize. They were built on eugenics. “The intent was not rehabilitation or public safety alone, but explicitly to prevent the reproduction of those labeled genetically criminal.” It’s

After 24 years inside Sing Sing, CCA community leader John J. Lennon says: “I’ve never seen violence like this.” Federal Judge Block: “Why won’t NY pass the Second Look Act? They’re stripping the hope out of prison.” Governor Kathy Hochul, Carl Heastie and Sen. Stewart-Cousins— we need to

Still at it in Albany here calling for #ParoleJustice and #CommunitiesNotCages there is still time for the legislature to finally take action and create pathways to freedom.

We aren’t giving up. Until the very last day of session, we’re fighting to pass the Earned Time Act & Second Look Act to save lives and bring people home. #CommunitiesNotCages spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…

Victim services & survivor justice orgs joined forces to demand NY lawmakers pass the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act & Marvin Mayfield Act this session. Survivors want healing—not endless punishment. They want safety—not mass incarceration. Stand with survivors and contact

Today, lawmakers, advocates & directly impacted New Yorkers launched the Robert Brooks Blueprint—a bold agenda to address NY’s prison crisis. The Legislature must act. Pass the Second Look, Earned Time & Marvin Mayfield Acts now. We stand with NYS BPHA Legislative Caucus. #CommunitiesNotCages

TODAY: Join us at 11:30am for a #CommunitiesNotCages call party. We’re flooding lawmakers’ phones to demand they pass the Earned Time Act and Second Look Act—because our loved ones deserve a real pathway home. RSVP: bit.ly/CallPartyCNC

Can't make the call party? You can still take action for #CommunitiesNotCages. Use our easy tool to contact legislators and demand they end racist and unjust sentencing: bit.ly/CNCNY.

MUST READ: “If lawmakers are serious about honoring Robert Brooks, they must offer a fair pathway home for people who’ve transformed while inside. Anything less is a choice to let this crisis continue.” cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/06…

PRESS STATEMENT: “Cameras didn’t save Robert Brooks. Data won’t bring back Messiah Nantwi. Oversight will document this crisis, but it won’t solve it. We owe the dead more than data — we owe the living a future.” Today, as lawmakers prepare to pass an oversight bill focused on

STATEMENT: “It is unconscionable that lawmakers return home today without having passed the Earned Time Act and Second Look Act as the humanitarian crisis inside New York’s prisons rages on. Since the murder of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility, more than 75 people

Mass incarceration is state violence.  In the face of the brutal torture and lynching of Robert Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, and so many of our loved ones, we say: NO MORE. We refuse to look away or be silent as racist and unjust sentencing laws tear families apart and warehouse our

#CommunitiesNotCages is on TikTok! Communities Not Cages. Follow us there for short stories, actions you can take, and movement moments from our fight to overhaul racist and unjust sentences in New York.

WATCH & SHARE: Mr. Ricks—a Rochester father, artist, and founder of a youth program—turns mourning into movement after his son, #RobertBrooks, was killed by prison staff on camera. With #CommunitiesNotCages, he’s fighting for real safety + new sentencing laws. ' GET INVOLVED

STATEMENT: Our response to the verdict in the trial of the prison guards who murdered Robert Brooks. “There is no justice in this verdict and no justice in this trial."

Robert Brooks should be alive. Yesterday's verdict brought no justice—1 guilty, 2 not guilty—after ab brutal 31-minute killing caught on camera. Stand with his family + demand real safety. Join the #CommunitiesNotCages Statewide Day of Action: bit.ly/CNCNov182025