Alice Johnson and Kim Kardashian make a great team!
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Alice Johnson and Kim Kardashian make a great team!

It just keeps getting bigger and better for Ms Alice Johnson!  Thank you Kim Kardashian for committing to help #FreeAlice!!!   To learn more about Alice Johnson please go to her profile page, filled with links and more. Alice Marie Johnson has expressed her “deep and heartfelt gratitude.” According to a thank-you note from Alice to…

Rewire reveals additional burdens for women serving time
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Rewire reveals additional burdens for women serving time

Special thanks to Victoria Law and REWIRE, for this in depth article:  “Women do not choose to have a period,” said Amy Povah, who spent nine years in a federal prison and is now the founder and director of the CAN-DO Foundation, in a phone interview. “If we are going to lock up women, then…

Vice reveals the truth about BOP’s failure to provide feminine hygiene products
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Vice reveals the truth about BOP’s failure to provide feminine hygiene products

Thanks in part to our CAN-DO survey, Vice wanted more information and went digging for the truth about BOP’s failure to comply with their own operations memo to provide free feminine hygiene products to prisoners, as promised. Two and a half months after guaranteeing free feminine hygiene products for female inmates, the Federal Bureau of…

Washington Examiner quotes CAN-DO prisoners seeking mercy from Trump at Thanksgiving
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Washington Examiner quotes CAN-DO prisoners seeking mercy from Trump at Thanksgiving

A huge thank you to Steve Nelson at Washington Examiner for spotlighting three prisoners that CAN-DO advocates for – Michelle West serving double life, Michael Pelletier serving life for pot and Chad Marks serving 40 years.  These individuals deserve mercy and have earned it…lets stop with the gratuitous photo ops that are an insult to…

Huffpost Op Ed on Federal Halfway House Closures
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Huffpost Op Ed on Federal Halfway House Closures

Due to hundreds of emails, letters and phone calls from prisoners panicking due to halfway house closures, CAN-DO conducted a survey and the results were worse than we expected.  Even prisoners who were leaving the very next day have had their halfway house dates pulled.  Many had signed what we believe are binding contracts. To…