These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives

Date:  05-06-2023 A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons.

From Truthout: When she was 20 years old, Sheená King was sentenced to life without parole. Two years earlier, King’s boyfriend had coerced her into fatally shooting another woman, threatening to kill her and her family if she refused. She was convicted of murder, which, in Pennsylvania, mandates life without parole. It’s a sentence that King, now age 50, and other advocates call “death by incarceration.” “Freedom is ensured when my ashes are shipped to my daughter in a cardboard box,” she explained in a newly released report on women and trans people serving similar sentences. Continue reading >>>