Clemency and Prison Education Benefits Everyone
Giving people in prisons the ability to learn more about the world outside—and the hope that they can reenter it—can pay extraordinary dividends.
Gregory Mingo was granted clemency in 2021 after spending more than 40 years incarcerated in New York State. He now works on clemency applications for others with CUNY Law School and The Second Look Project.
While I applaud New York Governor Kathy Hochul for transitioning to a system of granting clemency on an ongoing basis, rather than just once a
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