*Our client Percy West was recently resentenced from 132.5 years to life to 25 years to life and is now eligible to be considered for parole. When Percy comes home, the correct number will be 84.
Clients Home as of November 2024
Name | Original Sentence | Form of Relief |
Alphonse Riley-James | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Andre Jenkins | 15 years to life | clemency granted |
Antonio Harris | 23 years to life | parole granted |
Antonio Rosa | 25 years to 50 years | parole granted |
Arnold Raimondo | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Bruce Bryan | 37 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
Bryon Russ | 40 years | clemency granted |
Charles Washington | 35 years to life | medical parole granted |
Colin Absalom | 25 years to life | parole and pardon granted |
Conrado Pons | 50 years to life | medical parole granted |
Curtis Tucker | 40 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Daniel Diaz | 25 years to life | parole granted |
David Gilbert | 75 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
Deborah Pretlow | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Donald Platt | 22 years to life | parole granted |
Dontie Mitchell | 27 years to 54 years | clemency granted |
Edgar Gonzalez | 50 years to life | medical parole granted |
Edgar Ortega | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Erasmo Perea | 28 years to life | parole granted |
Frans Sital | 50 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Gary Benloss | 25 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Gary Cohen | 25 years to 50 years | parole granted |
George Hill | 20 years to life | parole granted |
George Jordan | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Gerardo Encarnacion | 8 years | parole granted |
Gjelosh Rukaj | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Greg Mingo | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Gregory Goodwine | 25 years to life | clemency granted |
Harold Capers | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Hector Roman | 29 years to life | parole granted |
Jackie Ruzas | 25 years to life | parole granted |
James Walls | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Javier Pacheco | 21 years to life | conditional parole for deportation granted |
Jawad Musa | life without parole | federal clemency granted |
Jing Dong | 19 years | conditional parole for deportation granted |
John Griffin | 25 years to life | parole granted |
John Smith | 27 years to life | parole granted |
Jon-Adrian Velazquez | 25 years to life | clemency granted |
Jose Chavez | 20 years to life | conditional parole for deportation granted |
Jose Rodriguez | 40 years | resentencing granted |
Joshua Tisdale | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Juan Roque | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Juan Serrano | 35 years to life | clemency granted |
Judy Clark | 75 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
Julian Castillo | 30 years to life | parole granted |
Laron Rogers | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Lawrence Bartley | 27 years to life | parole granted |
Luis Alvarez | 31 years to life | conditional parole for deportation granted |
Manuel Hornedo | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Marcelin Alexandre | 33 ⅓ years to life | medical parole granted |
Matthew Solomon | 18 years to life | parole granted |
Maurice Wilcox | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Natalie Burke | Served full sentence | pardon granted by Arizona Governor |
Paul Clark | 58 years to life | clemency granted |
Paul Leon | 50 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Peter Andreu | 26 years to life | parole granted |
Philipp Heller | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Prateek Sharma | 17 years to life | conditional parole for deportation granted |
Richard Chalk | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Robert Ehrenberg | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Robert Rose | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Robert Webster | 50 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Rodney Chandler | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Roger Cole | 75 years to life | clemency granted and deportation order vacated |
Rowland Davis | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Roy Bolus | 80 years to life | clemency granted |
Scott Cobb | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Sheldon Johnson | 50 years | resentencing granted |
Shem Carter | 25 years to life | parole granted |
Stanley Bellamy | 62 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
Terence Rice | 75 years to life | resentencing and parole granted |
Trevell Coleman | 15 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
Tyrone Jackson | 16 years to life | parole granted |
Ulysses Boyd | 50 years to life | clemency granted |
Walter Ray Taylor | 30 years to life | parole granted |
Wayne Haywood | 25 years to life | parole granted |
William Grant | 40 years to life | coram nobis granted |
Winston Campbell | 20 years to life | parole granted |
Yohannes Johnson | 75 years to life | clemency and parole granted |
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Clients Who Have Not Yet Been Freed
- Adam Roberts – 25 years to life
- Alshariyfa Robinson – 15 years to life
- Alvin McLean – 33 years to life
- Anthony Adams – 40 years
- Anthony Ruffin – 18 years to life
- Arthur Canteen – 42 years to life
- Asher Collier – 25 years to life
- Brian Hunt – 33 years to life
- Burnell McLeod – 27 years to life
- Carlos Herring – 31 years to life
- Christopher Young – 58 years to life
- Craig Jackson – 37 years to life
- Daniel Betancourt – 22 years to life
- Daniel Brown – 25 years to life
- Daniel Connolly – 40 years to life
- Darren Emanuel – 18 ½ years to life
- Darryl Powell – life without parole
- David Irons – 75 years to life
- David Sell – 43 years to life
- Demetrious Sampson – 25 years to life
- Eleuterio Cortijo – 25 years to life
- Elio Cruz – 18 years to life
- Eric Wellington – 25 years to life
- Everaldo Proverbs – 26 years to life
- Fitzroy Wright – 34 years to life
- Frank Pruitt – 50 years to life
- Franklin McPherson – 25 years to life
- Henry Porteous – 50 years to life
- Ian Rosales – 25 years to life
- Isiah Waters – 20 years to life
- Jacob Rouse – 22 years to life
- Jalon Shabazz – 25 years to life
- Jermaine Page – life without parole
- Jesse Hammock – 50 years to life
- Jesus Lebron – life without parole
- Jose Colon – 30 years to life
- Jose Diaz – 37 years to life
- Jose Matias – 52 years to life
- Jose Medina – 50 years to life
- Joseph Albert – 50 years to life
- Kalila Taylor – 25 years to life
- Kassan Messiah – 37 years to life
- Kevin Bussey – 50 years
- Kim Brown – 40 years to life
- Korey Liggins – life without parole
- Kristian Hansen – life without parole
- Lamar Sanchez – life without parole
- LaMarr Knox – 62 years to life
- Lance Sessoms – 75 years to life
- Lawrence Lewis – 37 years to life
- Malcolm Baptiste – 50 years to life
- Marty Humphrey – 46 years to life
- Matthew Lemon – 70 years to life
- Michael Jackson – 25 years to life
- Michael Jones – 40 years to life
- Michael Miller – 45 years to life
- Michael Shane Hale – 50 years to life
- Michael Tineo – 20 years to life
- Morris Grady – 40 years
- Nelson Guzman – 44 years to life
- Omar Alvarez – 66 years to life
- Pamela Smart – life without parole
- Percy West – 132 years to life
- Phillip Nieves – 49 ½ years to life
- Ramon Henriquez – 40 years to life
- Ramon Vaquero – 50 years to life
- Randy Jamison – 40 years to life
- Raoul South – life without parole
- Raphael Jackson – 16 years to life
- Raymond Wallace – 42 years to life
- Ricardo Joseph – 34 years to life
- Robert Quinn – 25 years to life
- Robert Williams – 25 years
- Ronald Alston – 35 years to life
- Russell McCoy – 37 years to life
- Sakai Scott – 24 years
- Sean Ryan – 70 years to life
- Tayden Townsley – 41 years to life
- Terrance Cole – 20 years to life
- Thomas Clancy – 25 years to life
- Vincent Pepe – 50 years to life
- Walter Smith – 50 years to life
- Yahya As-Sakof – 66 years to life
Celebrating Freedom
It is an indescribably joyous moment when someone we have been working with comes home. These photos capture some of that joy:
Julian Castillo co-founded Voices From Within.
Ulysses Boyd, 66, hugging a friend who greeted him as he left Green Haven Correctional Facility after serving 35 years of a 50-years-to-life sentence in prison. Governor Cuomo granted Mr. Boyd clemency in 2021.
Greg Mingo leaving Great Meadow Correctional Facility after serving 40 years of a 50-years-to-life-sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit. Mr. Mingo received clemency from Governor Cuomo in 2021. His wrongful conviction case remains under review by the Queens Conviction Integrity Unit. Also pictured: Second Look Project Legal Fellow Natalie Baker (left) and Mr. Mingo’s friend and longtime advocate, Ana Popovic (right).
Arnie Raimondo and Steve Zeidman. Arnie, a Vietnam veteran and grandfather, served 39.5 years of a 50-years-to-life sentence in New York before he received executive clemency in 2020. While incarcerated, Mr. Raimondo advocated for incarcerated veterans with PTSD and co-authored an article about PTSD that was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology.
Roy Bolus with Nicole Smith Futrell, Erin Tomlinson, Bahar Ansari, and Steve Zeidman. Mr. Bolus received clemency from Governor Cuomo in 2018 after serving 30 years in prison for his participation in a robbery in which another participant shot two men. Mr. Bolus was originally sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Robert Webster, Erin Tomlinson, Ulysses Boyd, Stanley Bellamy, Steve Zeidman, Nicole Smith Futrell, Lee Chalk, Jeannie Colon, Calla Wilson-Traisman, Greg Mingo, and Bahar Ansari at a fundraiser.
Stanley Bellamy greeted by supporters as he leaves Green Haven Correctional Facility after serving 37 years of a 62-years-to-life-sentence in prison for a crime he committed when he was 23. Governor Hochul granted Mr. Bellamy clemency in December 2022.
Jake Gianaris, Hector Roman, Yadira Hernandez, and Steve Zeidman together on the day Mr. Roman walked out of prison in 2024 after serving 29 years in prison. Mr. Roman received assistance in applying for parole.
Uruj Sheikh, Nayeon Kim, Robert Webster, Steve Zeidman, and Erin Tomlinson. Mr. Webster’s sentence of 50-years-to-life in prison was reduced in 2022 after he had served 35 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and for which he was arrested when he was 17 years old.
Andre Jenkins with Steve Zeidman and Michael Capra, former superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Mr. Jenkins received clemency from Governor Cuomo in 2018 after serving 15 years in prison.
Steve Zeidman, Nicole Smith Futrell, Greg Mingo, Lee Chalk, and Ulysses Boyd at an event hosted by our allies at Exodus Transitional Community. Mr. Mingo, Mr. Chalk, and Mr. Boyd received clemency from Governor Cuomo in 2021.
Members of the Clemency Collective with Second Look Project Director Steve Zeidman, in front of Governor Hochul’s office for a meeting with her staff.
Clemency rally November 9, 2021. Back row, left to right: Ulysses Boyd, Steve Zeidman, Bobby Ehrenberg, Greg Mingo, Lee Chalk, Judy Clark. Front row: Paul Clark and Arnie Raimondo.
Yohannes Knowledge Johnson leaves Green Haven CF after serving 43 years of a 75 to life sentence. Knowledge was granted clemency in May 2024.
Philipp Heller leaving Woodbourne Correctional Facility after serving 35 years of a 25-years-to-life-in-prison sentence. Mr. Heller is accompanied by Jen Neuman (left) and Fazila Naeemi (right), who helped him finally secure parole.
Alfonzo Riley on the day of his release from Shawangunk Correctional Facility after serving 31 years of a 50-years-to-life-in-prison sentence. Mr. Riley received clemency in 2018 from Governor Cuomo and is now the Director of Paralegal Services at the Legal Aid Society’s Wrongful Conviction Unit.
Bruce Bryan celebrating his release from Sing Sing after serving 31 years of a 37.5-years-to-life-in-prison-sentence for a crime he did not commit. Governor Hochul granted Mr. Bryan clemency in 2022, and his wrongful conviction case is ongoing. Mr. Bryan now works as a client advocate at Queens Defenders.
Colin Absalom and Steve Zeidman with the official pardon Mr. Absalom received from Governor Cuomo in 2021 after he had served his full sentence.
Gregory Goodwine received clemency from Governor Hochul in 2023 after serving 19 years in prison for a robbery he has always maintained he did not commit. Mr. Goodwine’s original sentence was 25-years-to-life in prison.
Grayson Bland, Lee Chalk, and Calla Wilson-Traisman. Mr. Chalk was incarcerated for 33 years before he received clemency from Governor Cuomo in 2021. His original sentence was for 50-years-to-life in prison.
Interviews
Please note that each video is posted with the enthusiastic consent of the people who were interviewed.
The following videos feature interviews with some of our clients whose clemency applications are still awaiting a decision from the New York Governor’s Office:
The following videos are interviews with some of our former clients who have since been granted clemency and have come home: