Gathered together at Hope for Recovery in Manchester recently, a dozen activists began assembling a quilt. On each patch, they plan to carefully stitch the name of a woman incarcerated in New Hampshire seeking clemency.

“I know how it feels when you’re in there and somebody says your name,” Danielle Metz, an organizer with the National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls, said. “That’s what’s going to give them hope.”