Lawmakers and organizations took to the streets across parts of New York on Wednesday in an effort to urge the governor to take action on sentencing reform
A corner in White Plains was host to one of six simultaneous rallies from Long Island to Rochester, all with the same message: New York's incarceration guidelines need to be changed.
"People talk about how racist our systems are all the time, but what are we doing to repair any of that," reform advocate Jolene Russ said. Russ was 17 years old when her then-boyfriend was sentenced to 41 years in prison for robbery. She's now married to Bryon Russ and raising their five children while fighting for his release.
"We are sentencing people to way too much time, we have no availability to a lookback of any sort and are not valuing the rehabilitation that people do obtain," Russ said.Several organizations are calling for passage of 'Communities Not Cages,' a package of reforms that would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, allow incarcerated persons to apply for sentence reductions, and establish an earned time act that would reduce prison sentences for some.
The legislature has been under tremendous pressure to overhaul its controversial bail reform law, so would they have the stomach to take on these three bills? One lawmaker says its apples and oranges.Burdick sits on the assembly's corrections committee and calls the bills common sense reforms.
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