Sarah DeArmond is 36 and is the CEO of the nonprofit, Voiceless Behind Bars™️ that raises money through tax-deductible donations to help pay for the legal fees for those who have been wrongfully convicted. She also uses her nonprofit as a safe space for inmates to contact her about the cruel treatment they’re facing daily in the prison system. Sarah hopes that her nonprofit can help bring more awareness to the inhumane treatment that prisoners are subjected to. Prior to running her nonprofit, Sarah spent her early twenties acting in a few indie films. She spent the rest of her twenties reviewing movies and doing interviews for a Christian film site before moving on to her own blog which she ran until her early thirties. Sarah lives in Alabama with her husband, Sean, who is a librarian and is also on the board of her nonprofit. They’ve been married for 14 years and have a dachshund, Baxter.

What You Will Hear:

• What people should know about Sara DeArmond
• Learning about wrongful convictions
• Being diagnosed with Neurodivergence
• How Sarah became so passionate about prison advocacy
• Wrongful conviction statistics
• Timothy McGruder wrongful conviction
• Sheron Edwards wrongful conviction
• Alabama’s prison system
• Voiceless Behind Bars
• White women’s obsession with black women.  Bethany Frankel
• Death penalty and wrongful executions.  Nathaniel Woods

Quotes:

“This whole prison system, the justice system, it needs to be abolished completely and then we need to rebuild it.”

“People do not understand the difference between rehabilitation and punishment.”

“Wrongful convictions, they’re more common than people realize.”

“It’s more expensive for someone to be executed than being in prison for life.”

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