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.

5 people stand underneath a giant billboard on a busy interection in Harrisburg PA. The billboard says "5476 people are sentenced to Life Without Parole"  and there are three photographs of Tameka Flowers, Charmaine Pfender and Sarita Miller. The background is pink and yellow. On the bottom right it says " End Death by Incarceration" letsgetfree.info

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 Open features Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger and Tameka Bell who came home from a life sentence after being sentenced as teenagers.

Creative Resistance

Films, art shows and plays are some ways we lift up stories from people in prison.

Campaigns & Events

Learn about our current campaigns and upcoming events.

Connect to the Inside

Writing and visiting people in prison is important. Relationship-building is everything.

News

Across the Walls Screening

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: Fair defense funding is a must for criminal justice reform

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…

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