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FOR FATHER’S DAY, GOVERNOR BROWN PLEASE COMMUTE MORE PEOPLE WITH LWOP!

“For the first time in more than 38 years, I’ll be able to celebrate with my daughter. I am deeply grateful to Governor Brown for granting me this tremendous opportunity to live a better life.” – Kenneth Hartman, formerly serving Life Without Parole (LWOP)

Dear friends,

Please join with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) in asking Governor Brown to commute more women, men and transgender people with LWOP sentences this Father’s Day 2018. 

Below is a short message you can email to the Governor’s office. Please bcc info@womenprisoners.org on your message and check out our new DROP LWOP website for more information about the campaign.

Sample Message to Governor Brown
Email address: leg.unit@gov.ca.gov
Dear Governor Brown,
I join with Kenneth Hartman, one of the men whose LWOP sentence you have generously commuted, in urging you to commute more LWOP sentences for Father’s Day.

“I am one of the fortunate few who had their sentence of LWOP commuted to life with parole last year. Consequently, I have now been out of prison for 6 months.  It is particularly meaningful to me to be out for this Fathers’ Day.  For the first time in more than 38 years, I’ll be able to celebrate with my daughter.  I am deeply grateful to Governor Brown for granting me this tremendous opportunity to live a better life, and I cannot adequately express how much this has positively impacted my family.  I hope and pray that many more men and women serving LWOP will have a chance to live this better life.”
– Kenneth Hartman

I applaud the historic number of LWOP commutations that you have granted and hope that you will continue to recognize that people have the capacity to change, grow and be rehabilitated, which an LWOP sentence denies.

Looking forward to your Father’s Day commutations!
Thank you,

Published by CCWP