Reports Indicate City’s Progress is Slow on Mental Health Planning for Inmates
City Limits
Some inmates enter New York City’s correctional facilities with prior mental illness made more severe by incarceration. Others have more subtle...
Four Deadline Extensions Later, Teenagers Are Still Locked Up in Solitary on Rikers Island
Village Voice
“For every single day we wait, we risk — and are — damaging the people who are sitting in those cells. How can we continue to put people’s humanity...Rikers Gets Extension on Ending Solitary Confinement for Young Adult Inmates
The Wall Street Journal
“The science on this issue has not changed, and neither should the board’s commitment to rules passed in January 2015.” said Jennifer Parish,...Ending Solitary Proves Challenging for City Jails
WNYC
"In continuing to grant the department extensions, variance after variance in excluding young adults from solitary confinement, the board must...Not alone: group looks to end solitary confinement
Queens Ledger
“This is not a black or white, Republican or Democratic issue,” MHP Safe Re-entry Advocate, Johnny Perez said. “This is a human issue. It’s a moral...Board of Correction Raises Concerns After Rikers Officials Fail to Eliminate Solitary Confinement for Young Adults by June 30 Deadline
NY1
"I don't know if it's becoming more violent or not, and I don't know who is responsible for that. I don't think the solution...MHP Receives Program Innovation Award
MHP was recognized by New York State Senator Jesse E. Hamilton at the inaugural Reflection of Hop Awards. MHP received the Program Innovation Award,...
A look at what happens when immigrants go to prison
New York Daily News
When Johnny Perez was young, he committed a crime that landed him in prison. After turning his life around 8 years into his sentence by discovering...Limit solitary confinement for people of all ages
Washington Post
Read Johnny Perez's (MHP's Safe Reentry Advocate) letter to the editor featured in the Washington Post!