A Mother's Voice

11/12/2024

At Vera Institute Coalition retreat in Baton Rouge held at the Hilton Hotel..Monday 11, 2024

06/30/2024

05/17/2024

Thinking about all the grieving mothers for their family members that are currently incarcerated. I know how they feel because I'm one of them. You do the time with them, folks say they put themselves there maybe so but they're still your children and you can't stop loving them because of mistakes they've made...Prayer is the key to survival without God we would grieve because there is a missing piece.

05/09/2024

Representing at the hearing for our 11 yr old girl that was charged for 2nd degree murder in New Iberia along with my coalition sisters and brothers 4/8/24.im still in disbelief that in this day anf time this serious injustice was able to be placed on this child that more people across the state even within the White house and yes I said the white house should have been involved as well as the governor of our state but because of her skin color she was able to be railroaded...Families stay close to your children and if they get in trouble beware of the wolves.

05/07/2024

We Speak 4 Them

04/10/2024

🏛️Today the Judiciary B Committee of the Louisiana State Senate voted down PJI’s Non-Unanimous Juries Bill (SB 383) by Senator Royce Duplessis.

📜 The bill would have provided new trials to people incarcerated under Louisiana’s Jim Crow era, non-unanimous jury system.

It is the responsibility of the Louisiana Legislature to create a remedy for the hundreds of people currently incarcerated with unconstitutional verdicts.

By refusing to pass this bill, our legislature has failed to end Jim Crow Juries and instead has chosen to uphold a racist law that has no place in our present.

“Today was about telling the legislature that it is their responsibility to right this wrong, and we are deeply disappointed to see this committee abdicate its duty to address this injustice,” said Hardell Ward, PJI’s Director of Community Impact. “We will continue to stand with the nearly 1,000 individuals and their families impacted by these illegal jury verdicts until they see the relief owed to them.”

The Jim Crow Jury system, created in 1898, allowed people to be found guilty of a crime even when some jurors disagreed. It was a system designed to convict Black defendants.

In 2018, Louisiana voters ended the use of non-unanimous juries and in 2020 the United States Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional.

Louisiana remains the ONLY state in the country where people continue to be incarcerated with non-unanimous jury convictions.

Today, 4 Senators voted for convenience over Justice, abandoning hundreds of people incarcerated with illegal, unconstitutional convictions, their families and loved ones.

On behalf of our clients and their families, The Promise of Justice Initiative thanks Senator Duplessis for his leadership and to the senators of the committee who showed they value justice over political convenience and apathy.

The fight for Justice continues.

Read our full statement, here: https://promiseofjustice.org/news/jcjlobbyday24

Learn more about the bill’s outcome, here: https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246714

Louisiana Survivors for Reform VOTE SPLC Action Fund Power Coalition Innocence Project New Orleans Equal Justice USA Priorities. Intentions. Practical Exchanges- PIPES

03/27/2024

We're Mothers of Presently & Formerly incarcerated Families....We Speak 4 Them is our motto....There is nothing like the love of a mother for her child ..We stand firm in support of all mothers that are going through....If their hearts are heavy so are ours, if they cry we cry, if they march we march with them, if they need support we're there to support, if they can't speak for themselves we speak 4 them....A Mother's Voice Support Group.

03/17/2024

Memories

03/17/2024

Memories January 27, 2023

03/16/2024

Supporting the Fontenot family at court in Ville Platte La, her daughter was killed and was accused of shooting herself with a shotgun...No Justice No Peace....A Mother's Voice Support Group 💪

03/16/2024

Supporting the 11 yr old child at New Iberia trial