Join us on Wednesday, August 10th at the Lehigh County Court House to call on DA Jim Martin to support geriatric parole. If you need transportation to attend the press conference we'd love to help to provide transportation. Sign up on this form and we'll follow up shortly to make sure you can get a ride to this important event. More info about the event below:

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On Wednesday, August 10th take a stand for second chances for people aging in PA prisons.

Join us at the Lehigh County Court House as we call on Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin to do the right thing and fully support parole eligibility for our elders in PA prisons.

Over 8,200 people in Pennsylvania are sentenced to life without parole or ‘virtual life' sentences that ensure they will die in prison. This number does not count the many other people incarcerated on very long sentences who might just as well succumb to illness or old age before they leave prison. Pennsylvania is turning prisons into nursing homes and doing so at a tremendous cost to their loved ones, their communities and society at large.

We need our elected officials to take brave and moral action to ensure that thousands of our community members don’t die behind bars far away from their families and loved ones who care about them.

Recently, a number of faith leaders called on DA Jim Martin to send a letter to the Pennsylvania General Assembly urging them to pass geriatric parole legislation and the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association urging them to support such legislation.

On August 10th, we’ll echo that call and ask DA Martin to support parole eligibility for our elders in prison.

Join us at 11 AM at 455 Hamilton St, Allentown, PA 18101.

If you are looking for transportation from the Philadelphia area