The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
Avis Lee holds a banner for Let's Get Free, the Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee which helped with her fight for freedom and with which she now organizes to free others.
At the same time, organizers in Massachusetts have been fighting the construction of a new women’s prison. Those organizers include women inside MCI-Framingham, the state’s sole women’s prison. Opened in 1877, the nation’s oldest functioning women’s prison has long been physically falling apart, prompting the state to plan for a new women’s prison at the cost of $50 million.
Just as the president can grant clemency to people in federal prisons, governors have the power to commute the sentences of those in state prisons. That’s what happened to Lee — in 2021, then-Gov. Tom Wolf Now an organizer with RAPP, Bellamy continues to advocate for the bill, which has remained in committee since January. As part of aof New Yorkers whose sentences were commuted, he and other recipients have pressed the governor to fulfill her promise to grant clemencies“It was the National Council that taught me that clemency was possible,” said Fox Rich of Louisiana.
She returned to Louisiana and convinced her husband to apply for clemency. He received it and, on September 20, 2018, returned home to his wife and their six children.
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