After months of back and forth, Democrats in the New York state Senate and Assembly have reached a deal on a slate of prison reforms in response to the deaths of two men, Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, at the hands of correction officers in state facilities. The omnibus bill has multiple parts, including provisions mandating fixed cameras in prisons, expanding the Commission of Correction and requiring the disclosure to the state attorney general’s office of video footage related to the death of an incarcerated person that involves a corrections officer.

You can find the omnibus package of 10 bills here S.8415 (Salazar)/A.8871 (Dilan).

Notably, the lengthy slate of reforms does not include any parole or sentencing reforms, something Jose Saldana, director of Release Aging People in Prison, discussed with Capital Tonight.

Saldana has been advocating for a bill which would grant parole eligibility for some incarcerated people age 55 or older if they have served at least 15 years of their sentence or sentences.