January 10, 2020 | Faculty Work|Faculty Media>Steve Zeidman

Steve Zeidman writes for the Gotham Gazette: “CUNY Law School’s clemency project received more than 1,800 requests for help with clemency applications. Yet not a single person had their sentence commuted in 2019 despite an abundance of robust and meritorious applications. Then on Friday, January 3, 2020 at 6:15 p.m., an auspicious time for any gubernatorial announcement, Governor Cuomo revealed that clemency requests for commutations had been granted to two people. Two people out of thousands of applicants.”