News, Reports and Testimony

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Reports

CANY’s Research and Reports

2022

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-08: Monitoring Visit to Albion Correctional Facility | June 22-23, 2022

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-07: Monitoring Visit to Elmira Correctional Facility | April 26-27, 2022

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-06: Monitoring Visit to Bare Hill Correctional Facility | March 8-9, 2022

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-05: Monitoring Visit to Sing Sing Correctional Facility | February 7-9, 2022

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-04: Monitoring Visit to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility | November 22, 2021

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-03: Monitoring Visit to Downstate Correctional Facility | October 22, 2021

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-02: Monitoring Visit to Clinton Correctional Facility | July 21-22, 2021

Post-Visit Briefing & Recommendations No.22-01: Monitoring Visit to Great Meadow Correctional Facility | June 28-29, 2021

"My Greatest Fear is to be a Lab Rat for the State”: Covid-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in New York State Prisons

2021

Three State Prison Oversight During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The case for increased transparency, accountability, and monitoring

What Must I Do To Be Released?: Incarcerated People’s Experiences with New York’s Parole System

Food Access and Quality in New York’s Prisons

Spread of Covid-19 in New York State Prisons: Month-to-Date Infections, Active Cases and Rates of Positivity

2020

It Reminds Us How We Got Here: (Re) Producing Abuse, Neglect, and Trauma in New York’s Prisons for Women

Summary: It Reminds Us How We Got Here: (Re) Producing Abuse, Neglect, and Trauma in New York’s Prisons for Women

More Harm Than Good: Monitoring Report at Fishkill Correctional Facility

He Has a Home to Go To: Family and Friends of People in Prison in New York Respond to CANY’s COVID-19 Survey

Connection With the Outside World: Prison Monitoring Findings and Recommendations

Summary: Connection With the Outside World: Prison Monitoring Findings and Recommendations

2019

Fact Sheet: Women’s Incarceration: the experience in New York’s prisons

2018

Issue Brief: People incarcerated in New York’s prisons: population profile and recent trends

Fact Sheet: Systemic issues with New York’s parole release process

Fact Sheet: Key health needs and challenges in New York’s prisons

Fact Sheet: Solitary confinement in New York’s prisons

Voices of Women in Isolated Confinement in New York’s Prisons

2017

Solitary at Southport: Data Analysis, Observations and First Hand Accounts of Solitary Confinement at one of New York’s Supermax Prisons

2016

First-Hand Accounts from People Incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility

2015

Reproductive Injustice in New York’s Prisons

Prison Monitoring Report: Clinton Correctional Facility

HIV Services for Women in New York’s Prisons

2014

Prison Monitoring Report: Attica Correctional Facility

Prison Monitoring Report: Greene Correctional Facility

2013

Women and the Search for Housing after Incarceration

Prison Monitoring Report: Woodbourne Correctional Facility

Evidence to Support Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility

2012

Policy Paper Outlining Recommendations to Improve Youth Justice

Prison Monitoring Report: Groveland Correctional Facility

Prison Monitoring Report: Fishkill Correctional Facility

Overview of Educational and Vocational Programming in New York’s Prisons

2011

Substance Abuse Treatment in New York’s Prisons: 2007 - 2010

Reentry Programs in New York State

Post-Conviction Barriers for Defendants Who Are Survivors of Domestic Violence

Prison Monitoring Report: Auburn Correctional Facility

2010

Proposals to Close Prisons, Cut Budgets and Build Communities

2009

Healthcare in New York’s Prisons: 2004 - 2007

Benefits of Higher Education in New York’s Prisons

2008

Policy Paper Urging Repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws

2007

Policy Paper Outlining Key Criminal Justice Issues in the 21st Century

Policy Paper Outlining Proposals for Juvenile Justice Reform in New York

Juvenile Justice Resource Guide

Fact Sheet: Women HIV and Hep C

2006

Fact Sheet: Women, Incarceration, Reentry and HIV

Collision of the Child Welfare System and the Incarceration of Mothers

2005

State of New York’s Prisons: 2002 - 2003

2004

Policy Paper Outlining Reasons to Close the Spofford Youth Jail

Mental Healthcare in New York’s Prisons

2003

Disciplinary Lockdown in New York’s Prisons

2002

State of New York’s Prisons: 1998 - 2001

Policy Paper Outlining Proposals to Rethink Juvenile Detention in New York

2001

Judges Speak Out against Rockefeller Drug Laws

2000

Healthcare in New York’s Prisons

Case Histories of Women Incarcerated under the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Media Coverage

Media Coverage

2023

“Suicides persist in New York’s prisons and jails” in the Times Union

2022

“Solitary by Another Name: How State Prisons Are Using ‘Therapeutic’ Units to Evade Reforms” in New York Focus

“Black, Hispanic people more often disciplined in NY prisons, Inspector General says” on Lohud.com

"As summers get hotter, incarcerated people swelter inside NY prisons" in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

"Prison oversight group offers system recommendations" on the Capitol Pressroom

"New Package Restrictions at NY State Prisons Create Financial and Emotional Hardships" in NowThis

"'Mental Health Units' in Prisons are Solitary Confinement by Another Name, Activists Say" in Truthout

"New York Prisons Set to Ban Most Packages from Family and Friends" from New York Focus

"An Overhaul of Prison Healthcare is Long Overdue" in The Nation

"The prison context itself undermines public health and vaccination efforts" from the Prison Policy Initiative

“From Rikers to Bedford Hills (And Back)” from Examiner+

"Two Years Into Pandemic, Basic Critiques of Prison Covid Policies Remain Unaddressed" from New York Focus

"Hochul Proposes Bringing Back Private Prison Labor" from New York Focus

"Vacancies and Zombie Commissioners Leave Opening for Parole Reform in New York" from Bolt Mag

2021

“’People Are at a Breaking Point’ After Transfers from Rikers” in The Nation

“Women Sent from Rikers to Maximum-Security Prison: ‘They Treat Us Like State Property’” from New York Focus

“Report: Pandemic response slow and inadequate in prisons” on the Capitol Pressroom

“Criminal justice advocates applaud Southport prison closure, others worry” from WSKG

“Rikers Crisis Renews Push for State Bill to Create ‘Correctional Ombudsman’ and Oversight Board” in the Gotham Gazette

“Prison Agency Resisting Oversight, Says Lawmakers and Watchdogs” from New York Focus 

“The Worst Prison in New York State” in The Nation

“Rikers Detainees Are Being Transferred From One ‘Hellhole’ to Another” in The Nation

“50 years after Attica, lawmakers say grim anniversary is a reminder of needed reforms” from the Legislative Gazette

“Attica: America’s infamous prison uprising is still a story about all of us” from FingerLakes1 

“A Warning at Rikers on the Anniversary of a Deadly Prison Uprising” in the New York Times 

“America is Still Locking People Up for Their Activism, Including Black Women” from Essence

“Inside New York’s Grueling Parole Application Process” from the New York Focus

“Locked In and Locked Out - Prison Life in a Pandemic” from Birkbeck: University of London

“But Who Oversees the Overseers?: The Status of Prison and Jail Oversight in the United States” in the American Journal of Criminal Law

“595 new COVID cases reported in Monroe County, more than 900 hospitalized” from Democrat & Chronicle

“COVID-19 in New York prisons: 'Positivity numbers represent a system on fire’” from Lohud.com

“Prioritizing Prisoners for Vaccines Stirs Controversy” from PEW

2020

“Cuomo loosens reins on prison access for oversight group” in the Times Union

“Latest Coronavirus Update: October” in The Highlands Current

“Hundreds of inmates test positive as COVID-19 rips through New York prison” in CBS News

“Measure enabling unscheduled prison monitoring caught in legislative limbo” on The Capitol Pressroom

“Report details inconsistent procedures in NY prison during COVID-19 outbreak” in The Daily Orange

“Virus threat cited in push for oversight of prison medical care” in Lockport Union-Sun Journal

“3 Big Ideas to Fuel an Equitable COVID Recovery” from WHYY

“Latest Coronavirus Update” in The Highlands Current

“Coronavirus in Jails and Prison” in The Appeal

“I Can Kill You In Here and No One Would Know It,” in Stories from Arnold Ventures

“Letter to the Editor: NYSCOPBA’s ploy to keep prisons open” in Albany Times Union

“Prison oversight reform in New York? (podcast)” in Fingerlakes1.com

“Prison Officers Haven’t Been Held Accountable for Violence, But A New York Bill Could Change That” in Prism

“Prison violence demands attention, too” in New York Daily News

“Where Hand Sanitizer Is Contraband: Are NY Prisons Ready For Coronavirus?” in Gothamist

Commentary: "Security Cameras Can't Keep New York Prisons Safe," op-ed by CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife in the Buffalo News

2019

“Criminal justice reformers seek alternatives to incarceration,” on WNYT-TV

“Officials Called It a Heart Attack. Inmates Saw a Bloody Beating,” in The New York Times

Commentary: “The Medieval World of Incarceration,” letter to the editor from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife in The Atlantic

“A Better Return for Older Prisoners,” in US News & World Report

Commentary: “Shine a Light on Prisons,” letter to the editor from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife in the New York Times

“Cuomo’s threat to close three prisons has many up in arms,” in the Recordonline.com 

Commentary: “Demand transparency about what happens in prisons,” op-ed from CANY Executive Director Jennifer Scaife in the Albany Times Union

2018

“The Tragedy of Mental Illness in American Prisons,” in The Atlantic

“Advocates campaign against solitary confinement in Eltingville with makeshift cell,” in The Staten Island Advance

“U.S. imprisons too many people,” guest commentary from James Connelly in the Adirondack Daily Express

“Release prisoners from solitary: This is psychological torture any way you put it,” guest commentary from Roger Clark in the New York Daily News

“Just Treatment: Exploring Cancer Care for Prisoners,” in Cure Today

“Empty Cribs in Prison Nurseries,” in Type Investigations

“Cameras Actually Tamed Attica, the Brutal Prison I Used to Call Home,” in Vice

”The Prosecution of Noor Salman, Pulse Shooter’s Widow, Highlights the Criminalization of Domestic Abuse Survivors,” in The Intercept

“Make no mistake, solitary confinement is torture,” guest commentary from Erika Bryant in the Democrat and Chronicle

“Tampons in the mail? Just the beginning of the change we need,” guest commentary from Anushay Hossain on CNN.com

“Solitary at Southport” on WBAI’s The Count (audio)

“Prison Contraband Seizures Up, Guards Say More Can Be Done,” in U.S. News and World Report

“Cuomo’s prison package crackdown is suspended,” in the Albany Times Union

“NY book ban to make prisons “safer” draws backlash,” in the HuffPost

2017

“All They Want for Christmas Is a Limit on Solitary Confinement,” in The Nation

Testimony
Video

2022

Prisons, Place, and Power panel with Dr. Breea Willingham, Dr. Clarence Jefferson Hall, and Andre Ward at CANY's 2022 Annual Event. Originally broadcast on On the Count radio.

2021

Incarcerated People’s Experience with New York’s Parole System: 5-Part Documentary

Parole Justice New York: CANY Board Call to Action

Attica is Every Prison

#DearCANY: COVID-19 Diaries from Prison Sponsored by Humanities NY, and hosted by the Correctional Association of New York.

2020

Podcast: Inside the prison oversight bill that awaits Cuomo’s signature

Podcast: Prison oversight reform in New York?

Oversight, Reform, and Abolition at the 26th Annual Conference of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE).

2019

CANY Participates in #TransformPrison Roundtable at Urban Institute in support of their Prison Research and Innovation Initiative.

The Enduring Legacy of Attica with Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water.