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National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls host Grassroots Rally in DC for Clemency

“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration

The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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Angela Reynolds – 23 years for drug charges

Name:Angela Reynolds  
Race: White
Marital Status: separated
Age: 41
Children: 2
Grandchildren: 0
Indicted in: Arlington, TX
Will release to: Sherman TX
Pled: Guilty
Charges: Conspiracy to sell a controlled substance
Sentence: 22 years and 11 months
Served: 8 … Read the rest

Charles Zacharia Sindylek – 1st Time Offender – 7.5 Years for Marijuana – Now Free

Zack is now in a half way house and on his way to his new found freedom!!! Welcome Home Zack!

Name: Charles “Zack” Sindylek, #25701-017
DOB: March 3
Race: White.
Raised: Pensacola, Florida.
Tried:  Northern District of Florida.
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Tony Lupian-Godines – 16 years for Marijuana – NOW FREE!

Name: Tony Lupian-Godines, #83504-198.
DOB: December 18
Race: Hispanic.
Raised: Los Angeles, CA.
Tried:  District of Puerto Rico.
Will live: Compton, CA.
Charges: Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Marijuana – (21 USC § 846 and 843(B)).
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Home Confinement Detainees Remain in Limbo!

 INCARCERATION NATION 

🏛 4500 released detainees may be sent back

[AFP / Chandan Khanna]

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Federal Bureau of Prisons released 24,000 prisoners to serve their sentences in their homes. In yet

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PBS special about Charles “Duke” Tanner’s clemency miracle!

The ability to pardon criminals is a unique power of a president, one that can be politically motivated and often draws criticism. But as Reveal’s Michael Schiller explains, pardons can also change lives.

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Ana Alvarez’s clemency plea to President Trump

https://miamicourant.com/stories/529028206-ana-alvarez-seeks-clemency-from-president-trump-after-serving-a-decade-in-prison-for-healthcare-fraud

By Joe Chen Apr 3, 2020
for Miami Courant – Miami Herald

Ana Alvarez, a 64-year-old mother to an only daughter, has served approximately 10 years of her 30-year sentence for a conspiracy to commit health care fraud conviction. … Read the rest

CAN-DO supports clemency for LaShonda Hall

https://tnbusinessdaily.com/stories/529577947-can-do-hopes-clemencies-granted-by-trump-will-produce-same-result-for-lashonda-

When President Trump granted clemency to nearly a dozen people in February, this included Crystal Munoz, 40, who spent 12 years in prison after being convicted on marijuana charges. Now supporters of LaShonda Hall are hoping the president will … Read the rest

Russell Ellis – Life + 5 years 1st offender

Russell J. Ellis
8-10-59
Black
Illinois
Chicago IL or Irving Texas
CCE: Trial
Life + 5 years
2-26-1998
23 years
Good
File in 2012 denied 2016, put in another clemency 2017 pending
None
F.C.I. Greenville; Ms. G. Harris , Mr. … Read the rest

Elda Juanita Regalado

Name: Elda Sanjuanita Olivarez Regalado #80948-079
DOB: 08/17/1961
Born: Rio Grande City, Texas
Race: White Hispanic
Marital Status: Divorced
Age: 55
Children: 5
Grandkids: 6
Living Parent: Mother: Elvia M. Olivarez age 89
State raised: Texas
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Pat Williams – Treasurer

Pat_Williams_Patricia Williams (Pat) was born in Paris, the daughter of a US WWII officer and a French mother. She grew up in France and on a plantation in the Belgian Congo (now the Dem Republic of the Congo). She experienced … Read the rest

President Obama Commutes the Sentences of 46 Prisoners.

While we are happy for everyone who received a commutation, we look forward to many more deserving applicants who are waiting in the pipeline, many of whom spotlighted on the CAN-DO website.  Listen to President Obama’s comments on CNN NewsRead the rest

Prison Art — Oil Paintings by Michael Pelletier – Life for Pot

Inmate Michael Pelletier, a paraplegic since the age of 11, serving a sentence of LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE for a nonviolent, victimless marijuana conspiracy offense, is almost a very talented artist.  These are some of Michael’s prison art oil paintings … Read the rest

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