Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee
We are a group working to end perpetual punishment, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shift to a culture of transformative justice.
Life sentences are death sentences in Pennsylvania. PA has one of the largest populations of people sentenced to die in prison in the US — 5,059. Read the Sentencing Project’ss new report titled: A Matter of Life: The Scope and Impact of Life and Long Term Imprisonment in the United States.
Writing and visiting people in prison is important. Relationship-building is everything.
Voices from the Inside
The following videos are voices from women featured on our billboard – Tameka Flowers, Charmaine Pfender and Sarita Miller. The film Wide Openfeatures Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger and Tameka Bell who came home from a life sentence after being sentenced as teenagers.
Support our new mental health program Did you know that one-on-one therapy is almost non-existent in Pennsylvania prisons? Last year, Let’s Get Free launched Virtual Healing, a program that connects therapists with people in Pennsylvania prisons who seek emotional and mental health care. This one-of-a-kind program currently provides free-of-charge, top-notch, healing support to 15 people…
In our upcoming issue #14, winter 2025 edition of Daughters Magazine, Sarita wanted to highlight the activities of Let’s Get Free, stating that alot of people know about the magazine but don’t know the full scope of what we are up to. So Asia Dailyn interviewed etta cetera about the past and present. We wanted…
Save the date for a series of events surrounding Let’s Get Free 7th art show and fundraiser. We’re planning art demos, gallery tours, and a panel discussion with international political prisoners. Opening:November 1, 2024 The show will be on display at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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