PILP 40: Celebrating 40 years of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
PILP40 was a celebration of 40 years of advancing the rights of incarcerated people across Pennsylvania. At PILP40, guests heard from former and current clients about the myriad ways the organization’s work has impacted their lives. The event was hosted by Erin Coleman, NBC10 Anchor and an Emmy award-winning journalist.
Attendees also heard from our keynote speaker, Dwayne Betts, a formerly incarcerated man who was able to break free from the bonds of incarceration and graduate from Yale Law School, and he recently received the prestigious MacArthur award. Between his years of public defense work, advocacy, and Betts’s own experiences as a teenager in maximum-security prisons, his experience uniquely positions him to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and present encouraging ideas for change.
Visit cityofasylumbooks.org/reginald-dwayne-betts to pick up 'Felon' by Dwayne Betts.
Thank you to our sponsors
Silver sponsors:
Stephen Brown
Toni Byrd
Independence Foundation
Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP
Samuel Silver
Joseph Sullivan
Independence Foundation
Will Sachse
Anonymous
Anonymous
Bronze sponsors:
Linda and Charles Tu
William and Christine Babcock
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Lyne Pitts
David Richman
CADCOM
Frank Furstenberg
Chris and Steve Levin
Josephine and Terence Yeh
JoAnne Epps
Reginald Betts
Anonymous
Friend sponsors:
The Law Office of Deborah M. Golden
Eric Corson
Scott Brown
Nancie Zane
James Lieber
Dina Schlossberg and Mark Gittelman
Howard Scher
Len Rieser and Fernando Chang-Muy
Richard and Wendy Glazer
Liz Swavola
Louis Rulli
Carol & Peter Petraitis
Kevin Lam
Bradley Bridge
Joseph Cohn
Alta Management, LLC
Mary Catherine Roper
Anonymous