Senator Benjamin and Advocates Announce Legislation to Reform New York’s Broken Parole System
(New York, NY) As momentum builds for criminal justice reform in New York State, State Senator Brian A. Benjamin, Assemblyman Walter Mosley, and a unique coalition of New York community groups, reformers, directly impacted people, and prosecutors, convened in support of the Less Is More: Community Supervision Revocation Reform Act (S.1343A—Benjamin/Assm. Same-As # pending, Mosley).Under current law, New Yorkers on parole can be re-incarcerated for non-criminal technical violations of parole like being late for curfew.