Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC)

APPHRC collaborated with the Harvard Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild on a discussion about the abolition of the prison system in the United States. ³ In March 2024, the groups jointly held a “week of abolition” event calling for “prison abolition and queer liberation.” ⁴

Policy Positions

The Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign collaborated with the Harvard Law School chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a radical-left group of attorneys and law students with a long history of far-left associations, on a discussion about the abolition of the prison system in the United States. ³ In March 2024, the groups jointly held a “week of abolition” event calling for “prison abolition and queer liberation.” ⁴

In 2020, the group signed on to a statement by the Minority Rights Group on the “HRC resolution on police violence and structural racism.” ⁵

The Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign supported the Racial Justice Act, a 2009 law passed in North Carolina which “allowed death-sentenced prisoners to challenge their sentences if they could demonstrate that race played a role in their sentencing and jury selection.” ^{6 7} The law has been criticized for allowing judges to use “statistics and anecdotal evidence of racial disparities in death sentences” to warrant the dismissal of death sentences and to create a de facto state-level moratorium on the death penalty. ⁸

Financials

Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign has been a tax-exempt organization since 2020, however detailed tax records are not publicly available for this organization as the group reports receiving less than $50,000 per year in gross receipts. ⁹

In 2022, Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign reported receiving a $6,000 donation from the AARP Foundation to “support AARP Foundation’s Digital Skills Ready @ 50+ Workforce Program.” ¹ The AARP Foundation is the charitable and litigation arm of the left-leaning special interest lobbying group AARP. ¹⁰

People

Tomiko Shine is the founding director of the Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign. ¹ Shine is a “Cultural Anthropologist and Mitigation Specialist.” ¹¹ Shine has argued that the Trump administration had “revealed dormant spaces of white supremacy reawakened” in America and celebrated the United Nations project “International Decade for People of African Descent.” ¹²