The Visiting Room Project @VisitingRoomPr
A multimedia story-telling project with people serving life without parole. Launched August 8, 2022. visitingroomproject.org Joined March 2022-
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TVRP's very own Daryl Waters wrote about his experience seeking clemency in Louisiana for @_inquest_ ! Read below -
TVRP's very own Daryl Waters wrote about his experience seeking clemency in Louisiana for @_inquest_ ! Read below -
A documentary project called @VisitingRoomPr has interviewed over 100 people who have been sentenced to die in prison with the hope of giving broad audiences a view into the lives of people serving lengthy sentences, as well as their transformations. eji.org/news/the-visit…
This is a powerful series of interviews with people sentenced to Death By Incarceration. Over 50k people are serving LWOP in the U.S., 70% of whom are Black. This @VisitingRoomPr + @nytimes video asks the urgent question: how much punishment is enough? nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
“America has a long history of prison music, and its power goes beyond helping those inside: This music can transform us, changing how we think about the people who make it,” writes Maurice Chammah. nyti.ms/3OcCwpy
Jarrod Lanclow remembers feeling hopeless, and "like there was nothing to live for," when he arrived at Angola to serve a life without parole sentence. (1/4) You can listen to his full interview on our site: visitingroomproject.org/visiting-room/
“I’ve been thinking about this milkshake for 60 years.”
“I’ve been thinking about this milkshake for 60 years.” https://t.co/Rf08c4Bbqk
When Leon woke up this morning he had no idea he would be coming home today. After 60 years in prison, his life sentence was commuted by the governor.
Please watch. It doesn’t have to be like this. #secondlook #EndLWOP
Please watch. It doesn’t have to be like this. #secondlook #EndLWOP
Glad to see the important @VisitingRoomPr and my friend and former boss Marcus Kondkar getting the NYT treatment. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
It’s time for society to let go of judgment and embrace compassion. These people deserve a second chance. #EndLWOP @VisitingRoomPr
It’s time for society to let go of judgment and embrace compassion. These people deserve a second chance. #EndLWOP @VisitingRoomPr
"None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did." The eye-opening work of the @VisitingRoomPr hit the @nytopinion today and, as always, is worth a watch. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
“If rehabilitation is a process, there should be an end to it.” Less than 3% of lifers who are released are rearrested (frequently it's for a technicality, not a violent crime). Lengthy prison sentences don’t make us safer. @VisitingRoomPr nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
Working with people in prison, you meet brilliant, amazing people. They did something decades ago, sometimes something terrible. But that's not *who* they are today. @VisitingRoomPr nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
We don’t even have the words to describe how important and powerful this is. You’ll just have to watch…. @nytimes @VisitingRoomPr thejust.us/3qf3YLo
"I've been here longer than I've been with my family, so sometimes I question where I'm from." Pls watch and sit with it all. @VisitingRoomPr nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
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Today, her brother @saleemholbrook is ALC's executive director. This month, he will follow in her footsteps with a delegation of formerly incarcerated people & advocates going to Geneva, Switzerland, to continue the battle to end all death by incarceration sentences.
The pressure of activists like Anita led to a critical win: in 2012 the US Supreme Court ruled children could not be subject to mandatory life without parole/death by incarceration sentences. 1,200+ people sentenced as children across the US were released, including her brother.
In 2009, Anita Colón went to Switzerland to urge the United Nations to pressure the US to end the practice of sentencing children to death by incarceration. She was there because her brother received a life without parole sentence in Pennsylvania when he was a child.
Death by incarceration is torture. This month, we will be going to the United Nations to call on them to pressure the United States to end life sentences without parole. Here's a story close to our hearts and to our mission of why this effort is so important: 🧵
A documentary project called @VisitingRoomPr has interviewed over 100 people who have been sentenced to die in prison with the hope of giving broad audiences a view into the lives of people serving lengthy sentences, as well as their transformations. eji.org/news/the-visit…
This is a powerful series of interviews with people sentenced to Death By Incarceration. Over 50k people are serving LWOP in the U.S., 70% of whom are Black. This @VisitingRoomPr + @nytimes video asks the urgent question: how much punishment is enough? nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
“America has a long history of prison music, and its power goes beyond helping those inside: This music can transform us, changing how we think about the people who make it,” writes Maurice Chammah. nyti.ms/3OcCwpy
Please watch this!
Today, @nytopinion released a video piece that uses @VisitingRoomPr interviews to examine our nation’s widespread use of life without the possibility of parole sentences. It asks whether people who have served decades in prison ought to get a second look. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
“I’ve been thinking about this milkshake for 60 years.”
When Leon woke up this morning he had no idea he would be coming home today. After 60 years in prison, his life sentence was commuted by the governor.
When Leon woke up this morning he had no idea he would be coming home today. After 60 years in prison, his life sentence was commuted by the governor.
Please watch. It doesn’t have to be like this. #secondlook #EndLWOP
Today, @nytopinion released a video piece that uses @VisitingRoomPr interviews to examine our nation’s widespread use of life without the possibility of parole sentences. It asks whether people who have served decades in prison ought to get a second look. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
@MorganGodvin @VisitingRoomPr Prisons have some of the kindest, caring, creative, funny, & giving people…who made a mistake. We’re working hard to share the realities of life behind bars & the failed mass incarceration system. We can’t get needed change if people don’t know the truth about prison. mc
Glad to see the important @VisitingRoomPr and my friend and former boss Marcus Kondkar getting the NYT treatment. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
It’s time for society to let go of judgment and embrace compassion. These people deserve a second chance. #EndLWOP @VisitingRoomPr
“I’m going to love people so passionately — until a part of me will always live outside of the gates of Angola.” A new Opinion video shares prisoners’ stories and asks the question: How much punishment is enough? nyti.ms/44QENxC
"None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did." The eye-opening work of the @VisitingRoomPr hit the @nytopinion today and, as always, is worth a watch. nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opi…
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