The news of Kenyairra’s 13-year sentencing was difficult enough to receive, but we were soon met with even more disappointment when we learned that one of our staff members was arrested at the hearing. On Friday, May 6th, Jessica Williams, the Black Domestic Violence Advocate at Freedom, Inc., was wrongfully arrested upon entering the Dane […]
Month: June 2022
The fight to release the wrongly incarcerated Kenyairra Gadson continues as we now struggle with her recent 13-year sentencing, unjustly given to her for defending herself from the attack of a long-time abuser and his peers in 2018. Kenyairra’s story is one that we hear too often. One where Black women survivors, especially Black queer […]
