Festival Films
Directed By: Brandon Haynes
Running Time: 21 minutes
Everyday, Donna and her team at ALPOL operate as a crucial resource to their community. They meet women at the prison gates on the day of their release with a hug and a ride home. They help people find stable and secure housing, and connect them with other resources that allow them to support themselves and their families.
Through Donna’s story, we discover that community organizations like ALPOL have a more important role to play in ending incarceration and achieving public safety than judges, prisons, police or parole officers. We also learn that Donna and her team played an integral role in the passage of the Less is More Act. Fully enacted, the new law will put New York at the forefront of shifting parole from being overly punitive to being supportive, focusing on making reentry effective and keeping communities safe.
