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The Last Prisoner Project is a nonprofit dedicated to repairing the harms of the criminalization of cannabis through intervention, advocacy, and awareness.
Sep 12, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
CALL TO ACTION: Please join us in our urgent fight to #FreeAntonioWyatt who is currently serving an 11+ year sentence for a first-time cannabis offense. 🧵

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Photo of Antonio Wyatt. Text reads: Take Action. Antonio Wyatt Fighting For Freedom, Currently Serving 11+ Years for Cannabis. We need your help to urge the Kansas Prisoner Review Board and Gov. Kelly to grant him clemency. Last Prisoner Project logo. On May 9, 2017, Antonio was driving from Colorado to his home state of Tennessee when an officer pulled him over for a traffic stop in Kansas and smelled cannabis in his vehicle. The officer then searched his vehicle and found 8 pounds of cannabis.
Jul 26, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
UPDATE: Rudi Gammo is coming home!

Rudi is scheduled to be released from prison today and will finally be reunited with his family after 5 long years.🧵 Photo of Rudi Gammo with his wife and three children. Text reads: UPDATE. Rudi Gammo To Be Released After Serving 5 Years for Cannabis. Last Prisoner Project logo Rudi's story began in 2018 when he was arrested and sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for operating a city-sanctioned medical dispensary in Detroit, Michigan.
Jun 14, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Yes, it’s 2023 and people are still being sentenced to hard labor.

Ahead of Juneteenth, we would like to shed light on the very real issue of modern slavery happening right now in 2023 in prisons across the U.S. 🧵 Image While the 13th Amendment protects most citizens against slavery and involuntary servitude, the only exception is when it’s used “as a punishment for crime.”

In other words, prison.
Jun 13, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
3 things you can do TODAY to help support the tens of thousands of people currently incarcerated for cannabis. 🧵 Write a letter to one of Last Prisoner Project's incarcerated constituents to let them know you're fighting for them at lastprisonerproject.org/letter-writing…
Jun 12, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
LPP constituent Sean Farmer was released in April after serving about 12 years in prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense. 🧵 Photo of Sean Farmer and so... Sean’s freedom came after Missouri passed Amendment 3, legalizing recreational cannabis and ordering the expungement of all nonviolent cannabis misdemeanors and felonies.
Jun 2, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
We are devastated to announce that LPP constituent Kevin Allen has been failed by the Louisiana judicial system yet again. #FreeKevinAllen 🧵

lastprisonerproject.org/kevin-allens-f… Photo of Kevin Allen in pri... On Wednesday, Kevin was resentenced to 35 years of hard labor. His crime? Selling $20 worth of cannabis to an undercover informant.
Jun 1, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
The progression of the LGBTQ movement and the cannabis justice movement are intricately intertwined, as activists have fought together for years.

This month—and every month—we stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ community. 💚 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth Image As of 2019, gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals were 2.25 times as likely to be arrested in the past 12 months than straight individuals.
Apr 18, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Before you 🍃💨, here are 4 things you can do on 4/20 to honor cannabis prisoners around the country. 🧵 #420ForFreedom

lastprisonerproject.org/420 Image Go to pardonstoprogress.com and write a letter to your state officials urging them to go beyond pardons and use their clemency power to actually effectuate releases. (Don't worry, we make it really simple.)
Jan 31, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
TAKE ACTION: Rudi Gammo is serving 5.5 years in prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense in Michigan. Every day that goes by is another day he is denied justice. Read his story and join us as we call on @GovWhitmer to bring him home. #FreeRudiGammo 🧵 Photo of Rudi Gammo in pris... In 2018, Rudi Gammo was arrested and sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for allowing the caregivers who supplied his city-sanctioned medical dispensary with medical marijuana to cultivate the plant on his property.
May 28, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: Earlier today Congress reintroduced the MORE Act, the most comprehensive marijuana reform bill in U.S. history. If signed into law, the legislation would remove cannabis from the CSA & eliminate federal penalties for manufacturing, distributing or possessing marijuana.⁣ The MORE Act would also create expungement & sentencing review processes for those with federal cannabis convictions, prohibit the denial of federal benefits due to marijuana-related conduct or charges, & use #cannabis tax revenues to fund community reinvestment programs.⁣
Apr 26, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
🧵 A pilot program run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons is outsourcing the prison mail management process to the for-profit company Smart Communications.⁣ Last Prisoner Project graph... This program first sees Smart Communications convert greeting cards, letters, & other mail sent to incarcerated people into digital scans. The original correspondence, often lovingly crafted by friends and family, is then destroyed.⁣