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A multimedia storytelling project and community archive with people serving life without parole in Louisiana. https://www.visitingroomproject.org/
On Nov. 6th, join us in St. Francisville for an evening of community dialogue around the impacts of incarceration.
📅 Thursday, Nov. 6th at 6:30pm
📍 Fellowship Hall / 4744 Fidelity St, St. Francisville LA
📩 Questions? Reach out to daryl@visitingroomproject.org
Our new series, Life After Life, highlights the accomplishments, challenges, and lived experiences of ambassadors coming home from incarceration.
Hear Idosia's full story, and the stories of others, in our community newsletter: mailchi.mp/visitingroom...
✨ Idosia came home in 2022 after over 24 years of incarceration.
While in prison, she trained in culinary arts and worked as head cook - A skill she learned from her grandmother. Today, Idosia finds joy in cooking for the people she loves most: her 4 children, 14 grandchildren, and fiancé, Robert.
Did you know that in Louisiana, incarcerated workers make as little as 2 cents per hour for their labor? Hear directly from TVRP narrators as they reflect on work at the plantation-turned-prison known as Angola.
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“I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die.”
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#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.
✍️ Lawson Strickland
Read More: buff.ly/oTaRzxf
🌷Scenes from our recent zine workshop exploring girlhood!
Together, narrators reflected on the radical history of zines as a tool for reclaiming agency and self-identification, shared how we might incorporate play into our daily life, and honored the parts of our youth we're ready to release. 🦋
Join Invisible Histories as we detail events and activities you can do to preserve the memory of someone who has passed. Oct. 11, 2025 11am Central / Noon Eastern Register: givebutter.com/maw2025
Join Invisible Histories for a one hour virtual workshop on activities and events that you and your community can do to preserve the memory and tell the story of someone you loved who has passed.
October 11, 2025
11am Central / Noon Eastern
Register: https://givebutter.com/maw2025
Our Emmy-nominated NYT Opinion video sheds light on the lived experiences of those serving death by incarceration sentences Louisiana. Watch here: www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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This law threatens the very process that has helped many TVRP narrators come home. Through post-conviction relief, they have reconnected with family, started careers, joined advocacy efforts, and been active members of their communities.
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Stay in the loop with TVRP! Our monthly newsletter includes updates and storytelling from narrators, news highlights, event announcements, and opportunities for community-building and action.
💫 Sign up here: mailchi.mp/visitingroom...
Rooted in a tradition of oral storytelling, The Visiting Room Project archive features over 100 interviews with people sentenced to life without parole – also known as death by incarceration – in Louisiana.
Learn more about TVRP and explore the archive: www.visitingroomproject.org
