Derrick Washington has been incarcerated for twenty one years serving a life sentence in Massachusetts. He founded the Emancipation Initiative organization in 2012 which is a group that advocates for ending Life Without Parole (LWOP) prison sentences and advocates for universal incarcerated voting rights. In 2023, he founded the incarcerated self-improvement group Black, Latino, Asian, Cultural Coalition (BLACC) at the MCI Shirley prison. He is currently in the process of reversing his conviction can be reached through the prison email system at corrlinks.com by searching for: Derrick Washington and inputting the prison ID: W89316).