If you had the power to free 5000+ people serving prison time for non-criminal violations of parole in NY. Things like curfew. Failure to update an address. Regardless of what they were on parole for. Would you?
If you had the power right now to release thousands of people all of whom would be released within a year anyway (within a year of the end of their sentence), regardless of charge, would you?
9,550 older people, particularly vulnerable to COVID, are locked up in NY prisons. Cuomo has granted zero clemencies. Pretend you had his power to grant clemencies & release any number of people. Do you think there’d be at least one life you’d feel is worth saving?
