Hi John,
Just making sure you saw this email given our deadline to reach $50,000 by June 30!
All gifts will be DOUBLED, up to $10,000, thanks to our partners at the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation.
Please pitch in–your gift today will empower advocates across the country to promote racial justice at a time when it’s needed most. [[link removed]]
The Sentencing Project and our advocacy partners rely on generous supporters like you for the resources to launch urgently needed research, advocacy, and public education efforts.
Thank you,
Amy
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Dear John,
Can you imagine receiving a life without parole (LWOP) sentence for something that happened when you weren’t even there?! Ceona can.
“I wasn’t present at the scene. I was actually with my sister and my friend grocery shopping when the crime took place. I was convicted under the felony murder rule, and was then sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.” - Ceona Harvey, served 15 years of a LWOP sentence, CA (quoted from video, linked below)
That is the reality for hundreds of people including Ceona, who suffered the consequences of an unjust felony murder law.
In order to help right this wrong, one of our partners, the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, requested a Racial Justice Fund grant to produce a video that would educate the public about California’s racist felony murder law and the Drop LWOP coalition's work to change it.
Let me be clear. Felony murder laws are not just a criminal legal matter. This is a matter of racial injustice that is destroying lives, families, and communities across our country.
In California, prosecutors are more likely to bring certain felony murder charges which carry a mandatory life without parole sentence against people of color or in cases involving white victims.
You can change this.
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John, when you give to The Sentencing Project, you multiply your impact by contributing to not only one organization, but a network of advocates supported by our Racial Justice Fund.
Without your support, projects like these might be delayed–or they might not happen at all. That’s why we have a goal to raise $50,000 by June 30.
All gifts made will be matched 1:1 up to $10,000 thanks to our partners at the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation.
John, will you stand with us in our fight for racial justice? [[link removed]]
Thank you for believing in our mission to promote racial justice in the criminal legal system.
Onwards,
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Amy Fettig
Executive Director
P.S. To watch the California Coalition for Women Prisoners’ powerful video on special circumstances laws, click here [[link removed]] .
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