Category Archives: Parole

The Siren Song of Mass Murder

Posted on October 26, 2023 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

The latest mass murder in America, in Lewiston, Maine, sounds like a broken record, a siren song. In the tenth month of this year, America has experienced and witnessed more than 500 mass murders. Still, the Second Amendment is sacrosanct, … Continue reading →

Posted in ezwwaters, Murder, Parole, parole board, Politics | Tagged Article 78, Lewiston Maine, mass murder, mental health, sirens | 5 Comments

“Life Sentence”

Posted on March 26, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

In my post, “The Anatomy of Advocacy – In High Heels,” I mentioned how the successful advocacy of the Ad Hoc Committee on Lifetime Parole was a much longer, untold story. This is another part of the story. In addition … Continue reading →

Posted in being a teenager, crime, ezwwaters, Justice Chronicles, juveniles, Lest We Forget, Life Sentences, Murder, Parole, parole board, Politics, race, raising black boys, Reentry, remorse, Streets of Rage, urban decay, Urban Impact | Tagged Ad Hoc Committee on Lifetime Parole, CUNY Graduate Center, Executive Law 259-j, Jenna's Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York State Board of Parole, Pataki Rule, The Anatomy of Advocacy -- In High Heels | Leave a comment

The Anatomy of Advocacy – In High Heels

Posted on March 25, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

In 1998, the New York State Legislature passed Jenna’s law, named after Jenna Grieshaber, a 22-year-old white female nursing student killed by Nicholas Eugene Pryor, a Black male who had previously been on parole. Governor Pataki exploited Jenna’s tragic death … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Life Sentences, Parole, parole board, race, Reentry | Tagged Ad Hoc Committee on Lifetime Parole, Bob Dennison, Diana Ortiz, Executive Law 259-j, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Gov. Pataki, Jenna's Law, lifetime parole, Parole, President Bill Clinton, UDC, Urban Development Corporation | 1 Comment

I’m Driving as Fast as I Can

Posted on March 22, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Bell Gayle Chevigny is another woman I met through my work with PEN America Center’s Prison Writing Program (PWP). She is also the editor of Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing, an anthology of some of the best writing … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Life Sentences, Murder, Parole, Poetry, Politics, race, raising black boys, Reentry, Relationships, remorse | Tagged American Studies Association, Bell Gale Chevigny, Doing Time, PEN, Prison Writing Program, Vassar College | Leave a comment

Fiat justitia ruat caelum

Posted on March 13, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Today I get to uplift an advocate and an author, Claudette Nurse. I have not met a person more passionate about justice than Claudette. (She causes “good trouble.”) She is an attorney. She worked for the Legal Aid Society, in … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, ezwwaters, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Life Sentences, Murder, Parole, Politics, Reentry, remorse | Tagged All Tapped OUt, Claudette Nurse, Claudette Spencer Nurse, Coalition for Parole Restoration, CPR, Justice, Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, Parole | Leave a comment

Prison Walls v. Love — Review of “Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife,” by Claudette Spencer-Nurse

Posted on June 25, 2018 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, by Claudette Spencer-Nurse, is a love story. It is an improbable love story. It is a love story that has defied the odds. It is a love story for the ages. It is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Amadou Diallo, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Family, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Parole, parole board, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, Reentry, Relationships, remorse | Tagged Attica, Attica Correctional Facility, Beauty and the Beast, BlackLivesMatter, Claudette Spencer Nurse, Coalition for Parole Restoration (CPR), CPR, divorce, Elmira, Elmira Correctional Facility, Elmira Reformatory, Ernest Nurse, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Legal Aid Society of New York, life sentence, love, love at first sight, Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, prison marriage, Prisoners' Rights Project, Richard Langone, Santiago v. Miles, Temple Law School | 1 Comment

Being Bernard Kerik…after Prison

Posted on April 19, 2015 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

This morning, on 77 WABC Talk Radio, Rita Cosby — @RitaCosby — interviewed Bernard Kerik, former, corrupt Correction and Police Commissioner of Gotham who, after a bit in the darkness of prison, has come to see the light about our … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioner Broken Windows, crime, NYPD, Parole, Reentry, remorse | Tagged 77 WABC Talk Radio, Bernard Kerik, collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, From. Jailer to Jailed: My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054, JustLeadershipUSA, prison reform, Rita Cosby, second chances | Leave a comment

Parole, higher education, felony-murder and more

Posted on July 22, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

CPR has been in the forefront, advocating for fair parole practices in New York since it was founded in 1999. Since then, other advocates and people who care about justice have looked at the issue of parole. Right now, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Murder, Parole, Politics, Reentry | Tagged 19th Congressional District, 23rd Congressional District, 27th Congressional District, Brooklyn District Attorney, Coalition for Parole Restoration, Congresman Tom Reed, Congressman Chris Collins, Congressman Chris Gibson, CPR, Executive Law 259-i, Fair Parole Act, felony-murder, Governor Andrew Cuomo, higher education in prison, Juvenile Offender Law of 1978, Kenneth Thompson, mens rea, non-killing accomplices, RAPP, redicivism, Release Aging People in Prison | Leave a comment

Waiting for Parole — Between Hope and Despair

Posted on July 19, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

One of the most powerful forces is hope, oftentimes counterbalanced by despair. In the criminal justice system, nothing inspires more hope than the possibility of being granted and being released to parole supervision. On the other hand, nothing drops one … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Murder, Parole, Politics, Reentry, Shawshank Redemption | Tagged Coalition for Parole Restoration, CPR, death penalty, determinate sentences, Ex Post Facto Clause, George Pataki, Hollywood, hope, indeterminate sentences, legitimate penological goals, lifers, Parole, parole commissioners, parole supervision, politics, politics of parole, post-release supervision, Recidivism, the "Pataki Rule", The Shawshank Redemption | 4 Comments

A New Paradigm – Elevating the Voice of Formerly Incarcerated People

Posted on May 7, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

With the recent launch of JustLeadershipUSA, Glenn Martin, President and Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, is looking to elevate the voice of Americans impacted by crime and incarceration, especially people who have been imprisoned, by positioning them as “informed, empowered reform partners.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice Chronicles, Malcolm X, Parole, Reentry, Slavery, Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Haley, Alexis de Beaumont, All of Us or None, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Blessed and Highly Favored: Memoirs of a Multiple Felon, But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, But They All Come Back: Rethinking Prisoner Reentry, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, Citizens Against Recidivism, criminal justice system, disenfranchisement, Elaine Bartlett, Era of Reentry, Exodus Transitional Community, felon disenfranchisement, formerly incarcerated people, franchise, Frederick Douglass, George Pataki, Glenn Martin, Great Society, Gustave de Tocqueville, Harvey Brown, Inc., incarceration, Jennifer Gonnerman, Jeremy Travis, Julio Medina, JustLeadershipUSA, leadership development, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, mandatory minimum sentencing, Mass Incarceration, mass incarrceration, Michelle Alexander, New York, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application in France, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, parole releasing policies, Piper Kerman, richard nixon, Rockefeller Drug Law, slavery and imprisonment in the United States, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet, the glass ceiling, the green wall, The Life of an Ex-Con, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Theo Harris, Thirteenth Amendment, United States, United States Supreme Court, war on crime, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July | Leave a comment

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