Compassion wyoming

Hope Beyond Bars: Empowering Second Chances

At our foundation, we believe in transforming lives through compassion. By supporting prisoner rehabilitation and community reintegration, we offer hope for a brighter tomorrow. Join us in creating pathways to a future filled with opportunity and dignity for all.

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The reason Compassion Wyoming was founded include: 

 There are over four hundred lobbyists registered in Cheyenne. The ranchers have the Wyoming Stock Growers and Cattle Growers Associations, the Oil men have the Petroleum Association, the teachers have the Wyoming Education Association. Until now, the inmates and their families didn’t have someone to do the necessary research and advocacy.  Compassion Wyoming was founded to give inmates a voice. Compassion Wyoming brings to the table facts to combat the mythology and misinformation perpetrated by Hollywood and the media.

Compassion Wyoming Reports

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Executive Director, Mark Corbett with Governor Gordan at the Prayer Breakfast February 2025
Executive Director, Mark Corbett with Governor Gordan at the Prayer Breakfast February 2025
Governor's February 2025 Prayer Breakfast Compassion Wyoming Board of Directors: Mark Corbett, Den Fetsco, Ed Snell
Governor's February 2025 Prayer Breakfast Compassion Wyoming Board of Directors: Mark Corbett, Dan Fetsco, Ed Snell
Mark Corbett and Dan Fetsco met with Governor Gordon 2024
Compassion Wyoming Directors Mark Corbett and Dan Fetsco met with Governor Gordon 2024
The Cross of Christ
The Cross of Christ
Compassion Wyoming Directors Clint, Mark and Dan Sept 2024 holding big card made by the inmates
Compassion Wyoming Directors Clint, Mark and Dan Sept 2024 holding big card made by the inmates

Until 1995 there was an exit strategy for rehabilitated long-term offenders; Wyoming governors used commutations to reduce the sentences. As you see by the table below, commutations have all but ceased in Wyoming. If you sign our petition, you are requesting that the current governor return to the standard set by governor Sullivan.

Figure A Governor Ed Herschler granted 856 commutations, and Governor Mike Sullivan granted 218 commutations. Governor Dave Freudenthal granted 15 commutations, and Governor Matt Mead granted only 3.

Commutations are reductions in an inmate’s sentence signed by the governor. It is not a pardon. Commutations may be for a few years or many years. Typically, an inmate with a lengthy sentence requires three to five commutations to be released.

Are you a Wyoming citizen age 18 or older?

Great, Then please submit the Petition

This petition is requesting an exit strategy for inmates with lengthy sentences who have demonstrated they have changed through participation in: group and individual therapy, religious services, education classes, or other “above and beyond” reconciliation activities. These inmates are typically disciplinary free for a significant period of time.