News and Updates
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Recent Clemency News and Updates on the Movement
September 30, 2025: Advocates slam gov for failing to commute sentences of incarcerated women
“There are many women that have transformed their lives, that are incarcerated for domestic violence, and have received what we call ‘death-by-incarceration sentences. We feel that they are ready and deserving of a second chance, and that the governor should give them the opportunity to return home to their families, their children.”
September 30, 2025: Clemency Plea
“Hochul has used her clemency powers sparingly this year, only granting the benefit to two incarcerated women.Stanley Bellamy, who was granted clemency by Hochul in 2022, urged the governor to act in more cases. ‘There are many others behind bars who are equally deserving of this second chance, and we’re holding this rally to call on her to act,’ Bellamy said.”
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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