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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Responding to outcry from prisoners who’ve been devastated by their half-way house dates being pushed back, (even the day before some were set to release) CAN-DO performed a survey to verify this is not happening to “only 1% of the total number of beds under contract” as stated by a BOP Spokesperson who misled Reuters when…