Join Us to Celebrate Our 10 Year Anniversary!

For 10 years, Amistad Law Project has organized to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.

In 2014, Amistad Law Project was founded by Black feminists with the goal of abolishing Death By Incarceration (also known as Life Without Parole) in Pennsylvania. For these movement lawyers, Amistad was the outgrowth of organizing they were already doing to end mass incarceration and build alternatives to policing in Philadelphia.

Since then, along with our growing movement family, we have:

• Led a campaign to build Philadelphia’s first non-police mental health crisis response and secured over $10 million to get that program off the ground. 
• Generated a shift at the Board of Pardons that drastically increased commutations for people serving Life Without Parole, reuniting over 50 people with their families in the last 5 years, including 13 of our clients. 
• Laid the groundwork to move historic second-chance legislation that, when passed, will offer thousands of people sentenced to Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania a pathway home through parole. 
• Produced documentary films, a podcast, and collaborative multimedia projects that amplify the stories of people impacted by extreme sentences and police violence, expanding the public’s imagination for humane interventions that effectively address harm and help people heal.

We are excited to celebrate this milestone with you as we approach 10 years of movement building to end mass incarceration. Please join us from 6-9pm at New Barber’s Hall (1402 W. Oxford St.) on Thursday, Sept 19. We will have a brief program along with food, drinks, and music. Come ready to party and build the relationships that will fuel the next decade of our work together. Register below to join us.