Lois Fraley inspires others and enlightens hostage crisis professionals as she recounts her ordeal to help others.

Welcome to the Lois Fraley Foundation web site. 

Lois Fraley was held hostage for an unthinkable fifteen days, the longest prison hostage siege in U.S. history, by two Arizona inmates.  Her story is one of desperation to inspiration.  Throughout the web pages you will have the opportunity to read, listen, and watch dramatic video surrounding the hostage siege.  Lois shares the intense moments of surviving day to day facing death, mutilation, and sexual assault. 

Her message is inspiring, uplifting, and at times humorous of how she overcame an imminent death sentence to gaining her release, reuniting with her family, to spearheading the Lois Fraley Foundation. 

This has been and will be an unforgettable experience for Lois and a valuable learning lesson in understanding lessons learned on how to overcome and survive a hostage incident.

The Lois Fraley Foundation Goals

1. Provide assistance on a nationwide basis for law enforcement personnel, survivors and their families of hostage incidents.

2. Provide assistance on a nationwide basis for Correctional employee survivors and their families of hostage incidents.

3. Provide assistance on a nationwide basis for survivors and their families that have experienced a hostage situation.

4. Provide hostage survivor training to employees or individuals of organizations that are at high risk from becoming hostages (i.e., banks, department stores, restaurants, Correctional Institutions and government agencies.

5. Provide nationwide hostage negotiators training from a hostage perspective:

a. Provide a first hand hostage account through lectures and seminars.

b. Publish training materials to assist survivors, negotiators and tactical members on hostage situations.