Daughter’s Magazine

Daughters is a magazine edited by Sarita Miller in collaboration with Let’s Get Free. The first issue was published in December of 2020. This page contains highlights from the magazine and links to download each issue as a PDF.

Daughters is a faith-based, political publication founded by Sarita Miller (SCI Muncy) that aims to illuminate issues and perspectives, specifically those of women, pertaining to the crisis of mass incarceration in this country. A platform for us and by us, Daughters will be a pathway to the expression of our fears, our struggles, our pain and our needs. Although for now we are confined, our spirits and voices soar free.

In 2021 we published two issues of Daughter’s and two issues of the Let’s Get Free newsletter magazine and decided it would make better sense to merge the two. The Spring of 2022 was our first officially united publication themed around issues of domestic violence. 💗

April of 2025 Daughters Magazine won 2nd place in the category of Prison Publication of the Year 2024 for issue #13 from the Stillwater Awards 2nd annual award program. The Stillwater Awards recognize excellence in prison journalism — one of the toughest places to practice the craft.

Contact: Daughters ℅ Let’s Get Free 460 Melwood Ave #300 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: letsgetfreepa(at)gmail.com

Daughters #18
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Spring 2026

In this issue we hear of a drug epidemic; brutal, terrifying and unsanitary conditions; heartfelt poetry, spiritual development, and a variety of writers, both inside and outside, taking aim at toxic masculinity. Highlights include: an exposé on sex trafficking in women’s prisons, interviews with Success Stories, a feminist Men’s Group in CA, In Traffic Magazine, a new PA prison based culture mag, and Kwaneta Harris shares insights on the patriarchy from inside solitary confinement in Texas.

Read the inside perspective from 70 incarcerated voices making it plain that the only solution is abolition! 

Cover Art: Kal-El (SCI Cambridge Springs)

Daughters #17
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Winter 2025/26

This issue speaks truth to power focusing on writing letters to public officials. Sarita interviews Charlotte West about College Inside: A biweekly newsletter about criminal justice and higher education. Jamie Silvonek is interviewed about her new book of poems and Endjah reviews Dean Spade‘s new book Love in a F-ed Up World.

Read inside perspective from over 50 incarcerated voices, reporting on conditions of confinement in PA and beyond.

Cover Art: Cyd Berger (SCI Cambridge Springs)

Daughters #16
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Fall 2025

This is the Cancer issue where many writers take a deep dive into the illness that infects many in and out of prison, highlighting the struggle to get preventative care from the inside. Sarita interviews Danielle Squillante from the Prison Policy Initiative discussing the powerful work of providing data for the movement. Book Reviews, legal updates, poetry, playlists and the inside perspective from 52 incarcerated voices, are all packed into this mag.

Cover Art: Melanie Rae (SCI Cambridge Springs)

Daughters #15
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Spring 2025

In this issue Sarita interviews community activist, Dana Lomax Ayers, and uplifts the theme of Transparency. The Daughters’ team is proud to collaborate with Kabasha Griffin-El on a campaign for Mental Health Awareness Month—Everyone is in Recovery from Something. Read our supplement publication Expressions on Recovery with a collection of personal experiences on coping mental health inside PA prisons. The mag ends with memorial tributes for Naomi Wilson & Edward Printup who both passed this spring.

Cover Art by Shonda Walter (SCI Muncy)

Daughters #14
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Winter 2024/5

In this issue Sarita interviews fellow writer Sheená King about her mentorship program on the inside. The Global Spotlight touches on the Alliance of the Sahel States in West Africa. Get closer to home with a discussion on the opioid crisis and long sentences related to the charge “Drug Delivery Resulting in Death”. There is also an overview about the history and work of Let’s Get Free as well as regular columns including Word on the Block, Legal Time and Rhythm from the Heart.

Cover Art: Dominic Newsome (SCI Fayette)

Daughters #13
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Fall 2024

In this issue Sarita interviews Dyamond Gibbs about transformative justice centered community organizing and we celebrate the launch of PA’s Commutation Now Campaign with a photo essay and report back from the September 13 hearings. Justin Laing interviews Tunde Osazua of Black Alliance for Peace about Cop City. Asia Dailyn talks real talk about the food in the DOC and we learn about The Menopause Project with an interview with Aishatu Yusuf of Impact Justice.

Cover Art: Jasmine Green (Pittsburgh)

Daughters #12
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Summer 2024

This issue spotlights PA’s broken Commutation process featuring interviews with Cyd Berger, Avis Lee and PA’s Speaker of the House—Representative Joanna McClinton. Cover artist Cedar Annenkovna opens up about the best job in the prison – being the mural artist at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. Jess Lopez leads a discussion about decarcerating Lancaster, PA and Justin Laing shines our global spotlight on Haiti.

Cover Art: Cedar Annenkovna (DWCF Colorado)



Daughters #11
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
April 2024

This issue, The Children Are Rising, features personal testimony from Natasha Miller and Rasheida Rankin and interviews with Stacey Mandel and Dyamond Gibbs. Other topics include: suicide prevention, sterilization, contact visits, updates on the PA supreme court case regarding 2nd degree murder and spotlights the exploitation of children from the DRC Congo.

Cover Art: Marilyn Dobrolenski (SCI Muncy)



Daughters #10
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Late Late Fall 2023

This issue highlights the ongoing genocide in Palestine, common struggles of drug addiction, and life in a Colorado Women’s prison while using a wheelchair. More articles share about attachment theory and the romance myth along with many poems and essays from inside of prisons across PA.

Cover Art: Emmalene Blake (Ireland)



Daughters #9
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Summer 2023

Issue 9 Highlights the Picture a Free World Art Show. Sarita writes on the complexity of holding both identities of being a survivor violence and a person responsible for harm. Read poems and essays from inside of prisons across PA.

Cover Art: Dominic Newsome (SCI Fayette)



Daughter’s Magazine #8
Let’s Get Free’s 2023
Spring Magazine

Issue 8 highlights Tameka Flowers and Sacred Dance, a new column called Level Up featuring accomplishments of women on the inside, new writing by Mi Gente, commutation updates and more. This portrait was created on a typewriter and has secret messages.

Cover Art: LMNOPI (New York)



Daughter’s Magazine #7
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Winter Magazine

Let Grandma Go is the theme of this issue focusing on aging in prison, the realities of prison food, commissary inflation and more.

Cover: Leslie Stem



Daughter’s Magazine #6
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Summer Magazine

Racism from a different perspective, introducing Mi Gente! Una nueva columna por y para hispanohablantes, Daughter’s Speak interviews Tequilla Fields and the Behind the Gates Music Ministry.



Full cover which is blue - two green strands of barbed wire flank the sides. In the center there are two fists with the words Domestic Violence on the knuckles. Below them is half of a heart which reads" Wounds that hurt or heal with a hand curved making up the otherside.

Daughter’s Magazine #5
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Spring Magazine

Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Commutation Updates and Inequities Across PA Prisons.



Let’s Get Free – 2022
Early Winter Magazine



Daughters Magazine

Summer 2021

Topics highlighted in Issue 2 include:

  • Mental health: trauma, covid-19, stigma, and more.
  • Interviews with some “Queens Behind the Movement”
  • Spotlight on art and writing by ALOK
  • Relationships, jealousy, and codependency
  • Commutation, the board of pardons, and legal issues
  • …and so much more!

Let’s Get Free Newsletter Spring 2021

Let’s Get Free Newsletter

Spring 2021

Daughters Magazine

Issue 1 – December 2020

Message from the Editor

Topics highlighted in Issue 1 include:

  • Women’s health and experiencing menopause while incarcerated
  • Prisons and addiction treatment
  • Poetry, art, interviews, and more!

I’ve witnessed more women than I choose to admit suffer in prison from lack of adequate healthcare.

-Sarita Miller, “Menopause: the Nemesis of Eve”

I believe any prison sentence that eliminates the hope of one day being released should be considered cruel. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania, it is not all that unusual.

– Heather Lavelle, “Unintended Consequences”

Training with staff is necessary to deal with the high level of women dealing with mental health issues and drug addiction. There should be stages of levels of care in dealing with residents.

– Interview with Nahesa Gray
10 minute video with Sarita Miller, lead editor of Daughter’s