Governor Kathy Hochul declined to commute the sentence of any of the more than 1,000 people in New York’s prisons who applied for clemency when she granted half a dozen pardons on Friday, angering advocates who say the governor has all but abandoned her promise to reform the state’s clemency process.
Read MoreWith a little over a month until lawmakers return to Albany, lawmakers and advocates reignited a multi-year long effort to reform the parole process for elderly incarcerated individuals.
Read MoreTami Eldridge is one of over 1,800 people with a clemency application pending with Governor Kathy Hochul, who has yet to commute the sentence of a single woman who applied for clemency since she took office four years ago.
Read MoreIssuing her first round of clemencies in eight months, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday pardoned 13 people but chose not to commute the sentence of a single New Yorker, despite the fact that commutation request make up a vast majority of the hundreds of clemency applications sent to the governor’s desk each year.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul granted clemency to a little more than a dozen New Yorkers on Wednesday, and publicly shared, for the first time, updates to the clemency reforms she promised a year ago but has been slow to act on.
Read More“What was omitted from the article was what he did to deserve that sentence. Here are the facts:”
Read MoreCuomo has not granted a clemency application since he issued a handful of pardons and commutations one year ago.
Read MoreNationwide in 2016, more than 161,000 people were serving life sentences or virtual life sentences — prison terms that exceed life expectancy.
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