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 — 5,467.
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.
Join us for a screening of Across the Walls followed by discussion: 2nd Chances Keep Us Safer February 18, 2pm -4pm, Saturday Carnegie Museum of Art Theater4400 Forbes Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA Access Notes: Wheelchair accessible. Captions on film. Wear a mask. This event is Free. 2nd Chances Keep Us Safer – Film and Panel…
Rob Perkins| Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 11:00 a.m. Opinion Printed in the Trib Live Our local system for providing counsel to poor people facing criminal charges violates people’s constitutional rights. The most pressing problem is chronic underfunding. Attorney compensation in particular hasn’t increased in 17 years. Predictably, unfair pay leads to underperformance. This should matter…
Call for Visual Art and Poems from artists on both sides of the prison walls This year’s theme: Picture a Free World Pierre Pinson, member of Let’s Get Free’s Prison Advisory Board, offered this theme. The theme is expansive. It can be interpreted many different ways and can connect to work you have already made…
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