Since 2000, Amy Ralston Povah, president and Founder of CAN-DO Foundation has advocated on behalf of others seeking justice through clemency. The CAN-DO Foundation website does not collect or compile the information on this site by surfing the internet. We communicate directly with every prisoner and/or their family members on the CAN-DO website. In addition…
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…
Andrea James, founder of Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH) together with many formerly incarcerated women helped spearhead the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act of 2017. Andrea polled numerous women from the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, (The Council) an organization she co-founded who’s members include a long list of…
CAN-DO Founder, Amy Ralston Povah got more time than her kingpin husband or anyone in his entire entire organization of smugglers and dealers even though she was the least culpable. It’s convoluted and hard to believe, which is why we’ve created a video using clips dating back to the 90s, from Court TV, Montel Williams and…
It’s important to understand how federal defendants are sentenced by judges who no longer have the ability to judge the mitigating circumstances of any given human being standing before them. Doesn’t matter if a woman was a victim of well documented domestic violence and had no ability to leave a drug dealer, or if a…
The CAN-DO Foundation reached out to the women of FCI Dublin to engage in a project that would commemorate President Obama’s legacy of compassion in a quilt made by the prisoners, relative to Clemency Project 2014. Special material reflective of Obama’s African heritage and home state of Hawaii were chosen, a “court-house steps” pattern, symbolic…
CAN-DO Founder Amy Povah in the feature length documentary, Incarcerating US. Her case exemplifies what is wrong with our current drug conspiracy laws that ensnare wives and girlfriends who are given an ultimatum to either “cooperate” or be indicted for conspiracy charges that will send them to prison, typically in the range of 20 years…
STATS ON WOMEN IN PRISON And Clemency Recipients – 22 CAN-DO members have received clemency – see list below: Although the rate of incarceration for women continues to be far lower than the rate for men (58 of 100,000 women versus 896 of 100,000 men), the number of women imprisoned in the United States since…
One very important asset when seeking clemency is the support of a Congress member or Senator. If you want to reach out to your congress member and seek their support for someone you know or love who is seeking clemency here are a few tips: TO BEGIN: You can either call, email or write…
The CAN-DO Foundation is a 501(c) (3) that operates on a volunteer basis. Not one person working for CAN-DO receives a salary. We are small group of formerly incarcerated people. Most the people in our Guardian Angel program are formerly incarcerated or a family member of a clemency applicant who currently has a clemency petition…