{"id":204023,"date":"2026-04-20T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204023\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:49:08","slug":"new-york-advocates-lawmakers-push-sentencing-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204023\/","title":{"rendered":"New York advocates, lawmakers push sentencing reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York advocates and lawmakers took over the Million Dollar Staircase in the state Capitol on Monday to call for changes to the state&#8217;s sentencing laws, including the Second Look Act, the Earned Time Act and the Marvin Mayfield Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Look Act would allow judges to review and reconsider sentences to allow incarcerated people to demonstrate that they have changed or have &#8220;unjust&#8221; sentences reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p>The Earned Time Act would expand &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;merit time&#8221; programs in prisons to help rehabilitate people before the end of their sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Marvin Mayfield Act would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Gant,\u00a0a formerly incarcerated person who currently serves as a community organizer at the Center for Community Alternatives, joined Capital Tonight on Monday to discuss the package of legislation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York advocates and lawmakers took over the Million Dollar Staircase in the state Capitol on Monday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,19662,2301,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-204023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-city-news","20":"tag-new-york-state","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}