Fighting For the Light of Day

LifeLines is a multimedia project conducted in collaboration with eight people serving Death By Incarceration (also known as Life Without Parole) sentences in Pennsylvania. The project was developed to support an emerging statewide campaign to end the practice of sentencing people to die in prison. We use the term “LifeLines” to refer to the fact that this project highlights the stories and analysis of those serving life/death sentences and to point toward the many collective relationships and infrastructures of support that are forged in resistance to mass imprisonment.
 
The pamphlet, titled Fighting for the Light of Day, is an effort to generate and share a dialog between participants in the project from behind prison walls. The pamphlet contains a series of responses to interview questions about daily life, strategies for challenging mass incarceration, organizing from behind the walls, the need for policy changes, and how to not only survive but continue to transform and grow while serving a Death By Incarceration sentence. Both the questions and the answers were generated by people serving Death By Incarceration sentences in Pennsylvania.