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 Open features Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger and Tameka Bell who came home from a life sentence after being sentenced as teenagers.
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Let Grandma Go Campaign Launch
Let Grandma Go! Campaign Launch Friday July 29, 20226:00-9:00 pm Campaign Launch9:00-11:00 pm After Party 5120 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA Donations to benefit Let’s Get Free Campaign Launch 6-9pm Learn about the Let Grandma Go Campaign, Sign postcards to lawmakers, Reserve limited edition museum quality print featuring a new original portrait of Cyd Berger created […]
Support Guaranteed Basic Income for Interdependence Day!
Today is a day to celebrate interdependence and embrace the truth that no one truly does anything alone. Welcome to the beginning of our new Guaranteed Basic Income initiative – a Softer Landing Fund. What is a Softer Landing Fund? A Softer Landing Fund is a guaranteed income initiative that will distribute recurring cash payments […]
Women Survivors of Injustice: Formerly Incarcerated Women Speak Out at Rowen University
Report by Debbie Davis On March 23, 2022, New Jersey’s Rowan University hosted by Professor Sandra Joy invited four formerly Incarcerated women, in honor of International Women’s Day, to speak on a panel sharing their stories of “Family and incarceration.” Cynthia Alvarado, Gladys Scott ( the Scott sisters of Mississippi) Paulette Carrington (juvenile Lifer) and […]
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