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.
Last week, the Abolitionist Law Center dropped a new report called From Victim to Victor: An Inquiry into Incarceration, Gender and Resistance in PA. This was the first-ever report to examine the gendered experience of Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania from the direct perspectives of those living it. Abolitionist writer, Victoria Law covered the unveiling…
Art Show Coordinator 2023 Contracted 4-month position Mid May – Mid September 2023 15 hours a week (estimate) $5000 ($20 an hour) Organization Background Let’s Get Free is a group of long sentenced people in prison, family members of prisoners, returning citizens and justice hearted beings working to end perpetual punishment and build pathways out of the prison.…
Let’s Get Free just did a spring cleaning of our Commutation Support Kit, a resource guide for those seeking 2nd chances from a life sentence in PA. Keep up to date on the ever changing practices of PA Board of Pardons and download the updated guide here.
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