More than 1,200 people behind state prison bars are seeking the gift of freedom from Gov. Kathy Hochul this holiday season.
All told, there are 832 pending requests for sentence commutation and 450 pardon applications awaiting the governor’s signoff, according to Hazel Crampton-Hays, a spokesperson for Hochul — a year after the governorBut Hochul hasn’t issued a single commutation or pardon since that December 2021 announcement, in which she promised to release prisoners on a rolling basis.
Crampton-Hays did not respond to questions from THE CITY inquiring whether the panel will make its recommendations or meeting details public. Shortly afterward, Clemente moved to California in search of work and a new life. But the second-degree murder charge against him was reinstated following an appeal by the prosecution.
“My father is getting older now and we are just telling him to take one day at a time because we don’t know what else to do,” his daughter, Victoria Clemente, told THE CITY on Monday. She maintains her father had no idea there was an open warrant for his arrest.
As for the advisory panel that finally launched this fall, Hochul is working to finalize the addition of a formerly incarcerated person on the panel, according to her spokesperson. None of the people given clemency during the Cuomo administration have gotten into trouble with the law, said Zeidman, who represented several of the formerly incarcerated.
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