Couldn’t be more grateful to have neighbors like these! Our food pantry is open 5 days/week and last year, we distributed nearly 400,000 pounds of food to Philly families.
Today, LaFaye Gaskins walked out of the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy - a place he once thought that he would never leave. He walked straight into his mother's arms after enduring 34 years of wrongful incarceration for a murder he did not commit.
Today, William Johnson's convictions were vacated🎉 He walked free this afternoon and is headed home to Philadelphia. The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office cited "gross prosecutorial misconduct" and "egregious" constitutional violations in moving to dismiss his charges.
After leaving NYC two hours ago, my Amtrak train pulled into New Haven, 81 miles away. I’m begging for our trains in America to go faster than 40.5 mph on our busiest rail corridor in the worlds biggest economy.
“Each one of them said, ‘We all had to let go of bitterness and move forward.’”
Yesterday, @DocRivers hosted a group of exonerees from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Thank you, @innocencepa for sharing your stories with us. ❤️💙