The RI
Freedom
Collective

The RI Freedom Collective is creating a robust network supporting Formerly Incarcerated Persons (FIPs), influencing policy change, and elevating the voices of people currently incarcerated and their families in Rhode Island and nationally.

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Nobody met us at the gate.
Now we meet everyone we can.

Formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders running reentry support, voting rights education and community storytelling for the people coming home after us.

259

Welcome Back Freedom Packs handed out in about a year

Every

person in a RIDOC facility can message us directly on Securus.

80+

years served by our three founders, all sentenced to life as teenagers

Every

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voting
rights

If you have a felony conviction and you're not incarcerated right now, you can vote in Rhode Island. Most people coming home don't know that. We tell them.

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welcome back
freedom packs

A phone with service, hygiene supplies and our Welcome Home app, handed over on release day by people who've walked out the same door.

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Community Filmmakers

Fourteen filmmakers, most of them directly impacted, telling reentry stories on their own terms with SLV Films.

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Mario Monteiro, Kyle Campbell and Steve Parkhurst were each sentenced to life as teenagers and served more than 80 years between them.

Mario came home through the law that now carries his name. Kyle won his freedom in post-conviction court. Steve challenged his sentence in federal court and won.

They started the Collective in November 2024 to do for others what nobody did for them.

Meet The Team >