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Savannah Eldrige has transformed her experiences with her incarcerated family members into advocacy on behalf of the incarcerated. She is the founder of Be Frank 4 Justice.

Casey Phillips is the founder of Texas Prisons Air-Conditioning Advocates, which was created after her husband was incarcerated. Phillips' focus on prison conditions has only expanded, and she discussed what it means to have a loved one, with serious…

Sean was released this past April in the midst of the pandemic after 27 years of incarceration. He shares insight from his experience and how he sustains his advocacy and ministerial work initiated during his incarceration.

Natlie Porteous describes her fiance's experience contracting COVID while incarcerated in a medical unit. She discusses both his struggles to get proper treatment and his advocacy for other's inside.

Lori Mellinger is a formerly incarcerated advocate helping provide support for women recently released from prison.

Lauren Byrd-Moreno is an activist with a loved one currently incarcerated. As a co-planner for a rally to bring attention to TCDJ conditions, she believes that the robust response and recent activism shows that, "The majority of the population is…

Lauren Byrd-Moreno is an activist with a loved one currently incarcerated. As a co-planner for a rally to bring attention to TCDJ conditions, she believes that the robust response and recent activism shows that, "The majority of the population is…

Maggie Luna is a graduate of Anthony Graves Smart Justice Speakers Bureau at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. During Texas’ 2019 legislative session she participated as part of the Women’s Legislative Team, which…

David Johnson is an activist and community organizer in Austin, Texas. He is the Criminal Justice Organizer for Grassroots Leadership, He says in his interview, "I want to see things like people saying no one needs to go to prison for life. No one…

Maurice Chammah is a staff writer for the Marshall Project and the author of "Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty," which won the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. He has extensively covered the Covid-19…