Why clemency should be more available for incarcerated who have little hope

[susie day]

John Moore, Jr., NY Amstserdam News — Thirty years ago, I was sentenced to life without parole for killing a young man on Buffalo’s East Side. I was twenty. Since my incarceration, I have been committed to change and to helping others find a path to rehabilitation. I have earned a college degree, counseled peers through crisis, and mentored at-risk youth trying to find a way out of the same violent environment I grew up in. The possibility of clemency — the opportunity for Gov. Kathy Hochul to reduce a prison sentence — has provided a new path to hope and freedom...