Episode 1 - Organizing For Parole Reform in the Pandemic

In this episode, our communications director Kathleen Pequeño interviews Jose Hamza Saldaña, the current director of the Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign and a formerly incarcerated New Yorker. RAPP has maintained a steady pace of campaigns in the pandemic, adapting and pivoting to keep defending the human rights of incarcerated New Yorkers. Jose shares RAPP’s approach of not excluding anyone from their campaigns and talks about their actions to keep the pressure on state government in the face of the pandemic and our state’s ongoing prison crisis.