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Amistad Law Project Executive Director Stands at a podium speaking surrounded by people in yellow shirts in front of the state capitol building in Harrisburg

New Political Maps Released: Get Active to Defend Community Political Power

December 18, 2021
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC) released the first iteration of their redrawn political maps Thursday of this week. Every ten years...
A Black woman with blond hair stands in front of a green plant and speaks into a microphone while wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the words Another World is Possible on the front of it

VIDEO: Nikki Grant Speaks on a ‘A City and a World Without Police’

December 13, 2021
(Photo by Charles Davis) The statement that ‘the police keep us safe’ is a piece of American mythology that masquerades as common sense. In most...
A purple image shows the top of the capitol in Harrisburg and reads 'PDAA: Pennsylvania's Mass Incarceration Lobby

VIDEO: Who Keeps People in Prison? Exposing the Mass Incarceration Lobby

December 11, 2021
Today movements against mass incarceration are bigger and broader than they’ve ever been. Campaigns to bring aging people home from prison, end...
a photo shows two elderly incarcerated people in wheelchairs in line for medication and one incarceraeted person in a white shirt standing next to them

PA District Attorneys: Support Parole Eligibility for Elders in Prison

December 9, 2021
Over 8,200 people in Pennsylvania are sentenced to life without parole or ‘virtual life' sentences that ensure they will die in prison. This number...
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Kris Henderson Speaks on Abolition Roundtable for Harvard's Mahindra Center

December 7, 2021
How do we bridge immediate and urgent struggles against mass incarceration with a future society that foregrounds transformative justice? On November...