Home News The New York Prison-to-Shelter P... The New York Prison-to-Shelter Pipeline Posted on February 28, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Every year, thousands of inmates in upstate prisons are granted parole, allowing them to leave prison and return home to New York City. But a NY1 investigation found, more and more, those inmates do not have a home to go to; they go into the shelter system — a system that poses its own challenges to reenter society. NY1 Political Reporter Courtney Gross has a report you will only see on NY1.