Second Look Kentucky
Advocating for a meaningful review process for excessive sentences, habitual offender enhancements, trauma histories, rehabilitation, age, family impact, and public safety.
Learn more âJustice. Recovery. Family. Second Chances.
From Streets to Strength. From Prison to Purpose.
Still Standing exists for the people prison tried to erase, the families left carrying the weight, and the communities ready to build something better.
Our mission
We fight for human dignity, second chances, family connection, and practical support for people impacted by incarceration.
- Second Look sentencing reform
- Letters of Hope and inside support
- Storytelling and public education
- Reentry preparation and community connection
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Days Sober Since 5.21.21
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Days Taira Has Been Incarcerated Since 7.6.16
Why this exists
Built from lived experience, not theory.
Still Standing began with addiction recovery, jail violence, disability, faith, education, and the love of a woman serving an excessive sentence in Kentucky. This work is about people who have done harm, survived harm, changed, served others, and still deserve a real chance to come home.
Letters of Hope
Sending handwritten encouragement to incarcerated people who are isolated, grieving, forgotten, or trying to hold on through impossible conditions.
Learn more âTaira's Story
A 40-year sentence, years of rehabilitation, honors dorm service, family separation, and a continuing fight for mercy, review, and a path home.
Read more âNavigate the Site
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Help turn pain into policy, letters into connection, and stories into change.
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