Advocates slam gov. for failing to commute women's sentences

MANHATTAN — Tami Eldridge, a 51-year-old woman from Queens, has spent the past 25 years in a New York State prison.

While behind bars on murder charges, Eldridge has earned three master’s degrees, mentored countless women and raised a daughter, who, on Tuesday, rallied outside of the governor’s Manhattan office to demand her mom be given what has become an increasingly rare shot at clemency.

“She has a very good example of what it looks like to be rehabilitated — what it looks like to flip over a new leaf and understand what you did and acknowledge it,” Eldridge’s daughter, LaQuintae, told the Eagle.

Eldridge has one of the over 1,800 clemency applications pending with Governor Kathy Hochul, who has yet to commute the sentence of a single woman since she took office four years ago.

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