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August 27, 2025: Legal orgs call on state leaders for prison reform
A week after Governor Kathy Hochul enacted her first round of clemencies this year, 135 organizations co-signed and published a letter to state leaders demanding more be done to address “the urgent crisis of racist brutality, medical neglect and denial of basic dignity in New York State prisons.”
“(Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) Commissioner Martuscello III himself has described the state prison system as being in crisis, and the state government must act accordingly – and bring it to an end.”
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