Non-profit

Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC)

Website:

apphrc.com

Location:

Washington, DC

Tax ID:

83-2771682

Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Type:

Advocacy group

Formation:

2020

President:

Tomiko Shine

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The Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC) is a prison abolitionist group that publicly presents itself as a felon rehabilitation group and advocacy organization for releasing elderly convicts. 1 2

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

References

  1. “Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC).” Cause IQ. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/aging-people-in-prison-human-rights-campaign,832771682/.
  2. “Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign.” Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.apphrc.com/.
  3. “Our Work.” Aging people in prison human rights campaign. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.apphrc.com/our-work.php. https://web.archive.org/web/20250110144508/https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/nlg/week-of-abolition-2024/.
  4. “Week of Abolition 2024.” National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, March 27, 2024. https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/nlg/week-of-abolition-2024/.
  5. “Mrg Joins Families of Victims and Rights Groups in a Call for Effective Implementation of HRC Resolution on Police Violence and Structural Racism.” Minority Rights Group, January 22, 2024. https://minorityrights.org/mrg-joins-families-of-victims-and-rights-groups-in-a-call-for-effective-implementation-of-hrc-resolution-on-police-violence-and-structural-racism/.
  6. “Racial Justice Act.” Aging people in prison human rights campaign. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.apphrc.com/racial-justice-act-project.php.
  7. “North Carolina Trial Court Will Hear New Evidence of Racial Bias in Death Row Prisoner’s Racial Justice Act Claim.” Death Penalty Information Center. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/north-carolina-trial-court-will-hear-new-evidence-of-racial-bias-in-death-row-prisoners-racial-justice-act-claim.
  8. Koppel, Nathan. “N.C.’s Racial Justice Act Survives (At Least For Now).” Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2011. https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-LB-40248.
  9. “Tax Exempt Organization Search Details: Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign.” Internal Revenue Service. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/details/.
  10. “AARP Foundation.” Cause IQ. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/aarp-foundation,520794300/.
  11. “Team.” Aging people in prison human rights campaign. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.apphrc.com/team.php.
  12. Shine, Tomiko. “Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.” OHCHR. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Racism/WGEAPD/Session26/WENA/tomiko-shine-aging-people-in-prison-human-rights-campaign.pdf.
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Nonprofit Information

  • Accounting Period: December - November
  • Tax Exemption Received: April 1, 2020

  • Available Filings

    No filings available.

    Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC)


    Washington, DC