Commutation in PA Now!

LifeLines is a media and cultural project that uses interviews, visual art, creative media interventions, and sound installations to support the statewide campaign to abolish Death By Incarceration.

Women’ Lifers Resume Project is a platform to showcase the positive transformation of women with life sentences while incarcerated. 

Mary Dewitt has worked with women serving life without parole in PA for 30 years. See her paintings and videos featuring stories from women in prison.

Life Sentences, a documentary produced by the Pennsylvania Prison Society in 1988. Features Sharon “Peachie” Wiggins and Diane Metzger at SCI Muncy and several men at SCI Graterford.

No Way Home is a 30 minute documentary produced by Amistad Law Project that traces the story of Lorraine Haw, known as Mrs. Dee Dee, as she grapples with the trauma of living on both sides of the epidemic of gun violence in Philadelphia.

We’re Still Here is a series of stories from people sentenced to Death By Incarceration. Over 5,000 people in Pennsylvania have been robbed of hope for a positive future due to Life Without Parole.

Self-Identities:Conversations with Convicted Women is a podcast that features life sentenced women from Muncy produced by Kathryn Whiteley

Pennsylvania’s Commutation Process:  Naomi Blount’s Experience is a 20 minute documentary takes you through one woman’s journey of the lengthy and laborious steps of achieving freedom from a life sentence. Naomi Blount was the second woman to receive commutation in the last 30 years and at the time of filming has been home for one year.  

Dying Outloud is an 18 minute documentary highlighting women with life sentences in PA who were not the main actor in the violence.