Mary DeWitt Painting
​contact:marydewitt@me.com
A New Spirit in the Pardon Garden
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The mural portraits of life-sentenced women will be relocated to a more visible site for advocacy, to be announced in the spring.
Pardon, the Highest Justice, as understood by the Ancients, will be re-imagined here in the Pardon Garden.
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November selfie in the Ceramic studio
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RECONSIDERATION
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons failed to investigate the credibility of uninformed victims' families. The pubic demands justice and RECONSIDERATION for Betty Heron and Cyd Berger.





Hand-made, 6"x6" high-fired tile mural portraits of Betty Heron and Cyd Berger, 2024, Pardon Garden, Media, PA. Both were severely battered women, sentenced in 1982 and 1980 respectively. They were poorly represented, sentenced to life without parole with no mention by their counsel of the battered women's syndrome. They have endured over 85 years in prison collectively. Misinformed and dishonest victims' families continue to sabotage their long overdue freedom. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has been politicized and careless.

This portrait was of hand-made tile was painted in 2003, with narrative added in 2024. Sharon Wiggins, beloved by staff, prisoners and anyone who was fortunate to know her, died in prison after applying for commutation 13 times. A video of her describing her grandmother's memory can be viewed here.

Cyd Berger, hand-made 6"x6" tile, 2022

Avis Lee on the left and Paulette Carrington on the right, low fired 6x6" tile


