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Tag Archives: CPR
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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
Prison Walls v. Love — Review of “Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife,” by Claudette Spencer-Nurse
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
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Parole, higher education, felony-murder and more
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
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Waiting for Parole — Between Hope and Despair
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
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