Fair & Timely Parole

Non-Rescue Campaign: People’s Campaign for Parole Justice

The People’s Campaign for Parole Justice is a grassroots coalition started by 15 organizations across New York State that works to promote fair and meaningful release opportunities for incarcerated people in New York State prisons. The primary goals of our campaign are decarceration and family reunification.”- People’s Campaign for Parole Justice.

How can the supporters of our movement learn from this one? Many Rescuers who are released are also released on parole. That campaign teaches us that striving for equitable practices for inmates doesn’t end when incarceration stops. This campaign utilized and amplified the voices of former detainees to humanize people struggling with injustices in the parole system. Similarly, it created a community to bring lawsuits and objections when the parole system was not treating a former inmate properly. Likewise, we should do the same for our Rescuers.

Read more about this movement and the political action they are taking here: People's Campaign for Parole Justice (parolejusticeny.com)