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.
In preparation for this year’s Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration (CADBI) rally at the State Capitol, we reached out to our more than 900 inside members who are incarcerated across the state of Pennsylvania serving DBI sentences and asked them to respond to a few short prompts related to our theme for this year. …
Let’s Get Free’s Creative Resistance committee has been busy, and we’ve got TWO big updates about art shows! Abolitionist Expressions Our permanent art collection will be on view at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater lobby gallery in Pittsburgh, Thursday, February 29 – Saturday, June 8. There will be an opening reception. Call for Art for the…
Visit creative-resistance.org for all the details, including: Full list of events Online gallery Art auction site Alongside our art show, this is our second year including poetry. 70 poets from the inside have submitted poems! A booklet of poems will be available for free at the show, and you can read them online here. Art…
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.