Families Deliver Holiday Cards to Wolf in Protest of Prison Mail Policies

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Protests Planned Against Prison Policies at Wolf Campaign Fundraiser

Banner demanding Wolf and Wetzel repeal prison policies

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Hundreds to Flood Capitol in Support of Ending Life Without Parole

“People’s Senate Vote” Shows Popular Support for SB942

#No215Jail Coalition Marks Major Step Towards Justice in Mayoral Announcement of Plan to Close House of Correction

People with Close HOC and schools not prisons signs

PHILADELPHIA PA (April 18, 2018) Today, in response to Mayor Kenney's announcement that the city will close the House of Correction in the next three years, the #No215Jail Coalition released the following statement:

#No215 Jail Coalition Congratulates District Attorney Krasner on First Steps to End Cash Bail in Philadelphia, Pushes for More

Rally in front of DA's office with End Cash Bail sign

Below please find statements/quotes from members of the #No215Jail Coalition and Coalition for a Just District Attorney on District Attorney Larry Krasner’s announced bail reforms.

‘Rally for Redemption’ Brings Hundreds to Support Bills to End LWOP

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Activists model transformative justice as juvenile lifer heads to court

Sentenced to die in prison as a teen, Kempis ‘Ghani’ Songster has a chance to come home

NEWSWORKS: Civic Leaders host forum to end cash bail in Philadelphia

Last night Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church hosted a forum about how other cities and states are ending the use of cash bail in the criminal justice system.

TRIBUNE: Group gathers in support of bill to end life sentences without parole

By Nathaniel Lee

Members of the group Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration (CADBI) gathered on the step of the Capitol in Harrisburg on Tuesday to call for an end of life sentences without the possibility of parole in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Participants included the West Philadelphia-based Human Rights Coalition and a host of others who traveled to Harrisburg to support HB 2135, which was introduced by Rep. Jason Dawkins. The bill would make those sentenced to life eligible for parole in 15 years of serving.

STATE COLLEGE NEWS: It's Time to Give Lifers a Chance at Life

By Russell Frank

There’s a faint glimmer of hope for Pennsylvanians who are condemned to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

House Bill 2135, introduced last spring by state Rep. Jason Dawkins (D-Phila.), would make inmates serving a life sentence eligible for parole review after 15 years.

Subramanyam Vedam would certainly qualify. He was a 19-year-old State College kid when his friend Tom Kinser disappeared in 1980. He was 21 when he was accused of killing Kinser and then found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole (LWOP).

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