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CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California -
ACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
EVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FAMILIES OF PRISONERS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 SAY THEY Los Angeles Times By LEILA MILLERSTAFF WRITER FEB. 28, 2021 5 AM PT Santos Ruiz, 41, said the state correctional system waited two weeks to tell him that his father, an inmate at San Quentin, had been hospitalized with COVID-19, and by that time it was unlikely his dad would recover. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By the time Santos Ruiz heard from the prison doctor last July, his REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. FIRST ANNUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AT VSPW First Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Day at VSPW. by Linda Field, former prisoner, survivor. September 1, 2006, dawned a beautiful morning full of hope and anticipation. I left the mountains driving to the Central Valley area and enjoyed all that my freedom offered. I was going back to prison this morning. PLEASE RELEASE PATRICIA JOELLEN JOHNSON W#41566 The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Attn: Andrea Hoch, Legal Affairs Secretary State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone:916-445-2841
CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California -ACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
EVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FAMILIES OF PRISONERS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 SAY THEY Los Angeles Times By LEILA MILLERSTAFF WRITER FEB. 28, 2021 5 AM PT Santos Ruiz, 41, said the state correctional system waited two weeks to tell him that his father, an inmate at San Quentin, had been hospitalized with COVID-19, and by that time it was unlikely his dad would recover. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By the time Santos Ruiz heard from the prison doctor last July, his REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. FIRST ANNUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AT VSPW First Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Day at VSPW. by Linda Field, former prisoner, survivor. September 1, 2006, dawned a beautiful morning full of hope and anticipation. I left the mountains driving to the Central Valley area and enjoyed all that my freedom offered. I was going back to prison this morning. PLEASE RELEASE PATRICIA JOELLEN JOHNSON W#41566 The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Attn: Andrea Hoch, Legal Affairs Secretary State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone:916-445-2841
PROGRAMS/CAMPAIGNS
CCWP’s visiting program in California’s women’s prisons is at the core of all our work. We partner with women and trans people inside to publish The Fire Inside Newsletter to give voice to feelings, ideas and art. Together, we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. We support the Spitfire Speakers Bureau as a way for formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and educate ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - 35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrestDONATE NOW – CCWP
Donate Now. We rely on the grassroots support of monthly or single donations by people like you. No amount is too small! Your donation supports: How to support: Make an online donation. Mail a check payable to California Coalition for Women Prisoners/LSPC, 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA 94608. We deeply appreciate your support.EVENTS FOR JUNE 3
Gabby was commuted from LWOP by Gov. Brown and paroled in March 2021, only to be handed over to ICE. We invite you to join the #FreeGabby campaign on Thursday, June 3rd at 5 PM PT for a powerful letter writing event to support Gabby Solano in the fight to continue to #FreeAllSurvivors. She is a criminalized immigrant survivor who is currently detained by ICE after serving 20 years in prisonEVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against the STAY OF EXECUTION GRANTED FOR LISA MONTGOMERY, THE ONLY Stay of Execution Granted for Lisa Montgomery. BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss has enjoined the federal government from executing Lisa Montgomery, a severely traumatized and mentally ill person who is the only woman on federal death row, until her lawyers recover from COVID-19 and can prepare her clemency application. HOW TO BECOME A PENPAL FOR AN INCARCERATED WOMAN How to become a penpal for an incarcerated woman. Contact: Pen Pal Project. P.O. Box 781116. Los Angeles, CA 90016. Jeanne@pieper.com. Some Practical Information. Send your pen pal a few stamps on a regular basis! (Ask her first if she needs them). CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California -ACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
EVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FAMILIES OF PRISONERS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 SAY THEY Los Angeles Times By LEILA MILLERSTAFF WRITER FEB. 28, 2021 5 AM PT Santos Ruiz, 41, said the state correctional system waited two weeks to tell him that his father, an inmate at San Quentin, had been hospitalized with COVID-19, and by that time it was unlikely his dad would recover. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By the time Santos Ruiz heard from the prison doctor last July, his REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. FIRST ANNUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AT VSPW First Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Day at VSPW. by Linda Field, former prisoner, survivor. September 1, 2006, dawned a beautiful morning full of hope and anticipation. I left the mountains driving to the Central Valley area and enjoyed all that my freedom offered. I was going back to prison this morning. PLEASE RELEASE PATRICIA JOELLEN JOHNSON W#41566 The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Attn: Andrea Hoch, Legal Affairs Secretary State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone:916-445-2841
CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California -ACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
EVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FAMILIES OF PRISONERS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 SAY THEY Los Angeles Times By LEILA MILLERSTAFF WRITER FEB. 28, 2021 5 AM PT Santos Ruiz, 41, said the state correctional system waited two weeks to tell him that his father, an inmate at San Quentin, had been hospitalized with COVID-19, and by that time it was unlikely his dad would recover. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By the time Santos Ruiz heard from the prison doctor last July, his REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. FIRST ANNUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AT VSPW First Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Day at VSPW. by Linda Field, former prisoner, survivor. September 1, 2006, dawned a beautiful morning full of hope and anticipation. I left the mountains driving to the Central Valley area and enjoyed all that my freedom offered. I was going back to prison this morning. PLEASE RELEASE PATRICIA JOELLEN JOHNSON W#41566 The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Attn: Andrea Hoch, Legal Affairs Secretary State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone:916-445-2841
PROGRAMS/CAMPAIGNS
CCWP’s visiting program in California’s women’s prisons is at the core of all our work. We partner with women and trans people inside to publish The Fire Inside Newsletter to give voice to feelings, ideas and art. Together, we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. We support the Spitfire Speakers Bureau as a way for formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and educate ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - 35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrestDONATE NOW – CCWP
Donate Now. We rely on the grassroots support of monthly or single donations by people like you. No amount is too small! Your donation supports: How to support: Make an online donation. Mail a check payable to California Coalition for Women Prisoners/LSPC, 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA 94608. We deeply appreciate your support.EVENTS FOR JUNE 3
Gabby was commuted from LWOP by Gov. Brown and paroled in March 2021, only to be handed over to ICE. We invite you to join the #FreeGabby campaign on Thursday, June 3rd at 5 PM PT for a powerful letter writing event to support Gabby Solano in the fight to continue to #FreeAllSurvivors. She is a criminalized immigrant survivor who is currently detained by ICE after serving 20 years in prisonEVENTS FOR APRIL 25
A ritual of remembrance towards releasing people incarcerated in California - #FreeThemAll We invite you to join #HonorLivesLost, an online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. These gatherings will take place every Sunday at sunset via Zoom and include an #HonorLivesLost facilitator and a rotation of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against the STAY OF EXECUTION GRANTED FOR LISA MONTGOMERY, THE ONLY Stay of Execution Granted for Lisa Montgomery. BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss has enjoined the federal government from executing Lisa Montgomery, a severely traumatized and mentally ill person who is the only woman on federal death row, until her lawyers recover from COVID-19 and can prepare her clemency application. HOW TO BECOME A PENPAL FOR AN INCARCERATED WOMAN How to become a penpal for an incarcerated woman. Contact: Pen Pal Project. P.O. Box 781116. Los Angeles, CA 90016. Jeanne@pieper.com. Some Practical Information. Send your pen pal a few stamps on a regular basis! (Ask her first if she needs them). CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrestACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were 31 GUARDS SUSPENDED AT A WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the state’s only prison for women. The New York TimesBy Tracey TullyJan. 28, 2021 A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J. Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times For Trimeka Rollins’s daughter, who is 24 and transgender, New BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against the GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrestACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws were 31 GUARDS SUSPENDED AT A WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the state’s only prison for women. The New York TimesBy Tracey TullyJan. 28, 2021 A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J. Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times For Trimeka Rollins’s daughter, who is 24 and transgender, New BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against the GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL VIOLENCE WILL CLOSE Gov. Philip D. Murphy said that he would shut down Edna Mahan, New Jersey’s only women’s prison, because of a “long history of abusive incidents.” nytimes.com Tracey Tully | June 7, 2021 Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Just over a year ago, the Justice Department offered a scathing indictment of New Jersey’s only prison for women, describing a culture of sexual violence ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California -PROGRAMS/CAMPAIGNS
CCWP’s visiting program in California’s women’s prisons is at the core of all our work. We partner with women and trans people inside to publish The Fire Inside Newsletter to give voice to feelings, ideas and art. Together, we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. We support the Spitfire Speakers Bureau as a way for formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and educate 31 GUARDS SUSPENDED AT A WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the state’s only prison for women. The New York TimesBy Tracey TullyJan. 28, 2021 A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J. Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times For Trimeka Rollins’s daughter, who is 24 and transgender, NewWOMEN AND PRISONS
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Northeastern University Press, 1996. Dubbed "a cold, hard view of life of women in American prisons," this book presents the life stories of women prisoners and argues that prison is a form of institutional violence perpetrated primarily against the poor and people ofDONATE NOW – CCWP
Donate Now. We rely on the grassroots support of monthly or single donations by people like you. No amount is too small! Your donation supports: How to support: Make an online donation. Mail a check payable to California Coalition for Women Prisoners/LSPC, 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA 94608. We deeply appreciate your support.EVENTS FOR JUNE 3
Gabby was commuted from LWOP by Gov. Brown and paroled in March 2021, only to be handed over to ICE. We invite you to join the #FreeGabby campaign on Thursday, June 3rd at 5 PM PT for a powerful letter writing event to support Gabby Solano in the fight to continue to #FreeAllSurvivors. She is a criminalized immigrant survivor who is currently detained by ICE after serving 20 years in prison FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against theEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for HOW TO BECOME A PENPAL FOR AN INCARCERATED WOMAN How to become a penpal for an incarcerated woman. Contact: Pen Pal Project. P.O. Box 781116. Los Angeles, CA 90016. Jeanne@pieper.com. Some Practical Information. Send your pen pal a few stamps on a regular basis! (Ask her first if she needs them). CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws wereACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department ofEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws wereACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department ofEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL VIOLENCE WILL CLOSE Gov. Philip D. Murphy said that he would shut down Edna Mahan, New Jersey’s only women’s prison, because of a “long history of abusive incidents.” nytimes.com Tracey Tully | June 7, 2021 Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Just over a year ago, the Justice Department offered a scathing indictment of New Jersey’s only prison for women, describing a culture of sexual violencePROGRAMS/CAMPAIGNS
CCWP’s visiting program in California’s women’s prisons is at the core of all our work. We partner with women and trans people inside to publish The Fire Inside Newsletter to give voice to feelings, ideas and art. Together, we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. We support the Spitfire Speakers Bureau as a way for formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and educateACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentenceDONATE NOW – CCWP
Donate Now. We rely on the grassroots support of monthly or single donations by people like you. No amount is too small! Your donation supports: How to support: Make an online donation. Mail a check payable to California Coalition for Women Prisoners/LSPC, 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA 94608. We deeply appreciate your support. 31 GUARDS SUSPENDED AT A WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the state’s only prison for women. The New York TimesBy Tracey TullyJan. 28, 2021 A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J. Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times For Trimeka Rollins’s daughter, who is 24 and transgender, NewEVENTS FOR JUNE 3
Gabby was commuted from LWOP by Gov. Brown and paroled in March 2021, only to be handed over to ICE. We invite you to join the #FreeGabby campaign on Thursday, June 3rd at 5 PM PT for a powerful letter writing event to support Gabby Solano in the fight to continue to #FreeAllSurvivors. She is a criminalized immigrant survivor who is currently detained by ICE after serving 20 years in prisonWOMEN AND PRISONS
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Northeastern University Press, 1996. Dubbed "a cold, hard view of life of women in American prisons," this book presents the life stories of women prisoners and argues that prison is a form of institutional violence perpetrated primarily against the poor and people of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against theEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for HOW TO BECOME A PENPAL FOR AN INCARCERATED WOMAN How to become a penpal for an incarcerated woman. Contact: Pen Pal Project. P.O. Box 781116. Los Angeles, CA 90016. Jeanne@pieper.com. Some Practical Information. Send your pen pal a few stamps on a regular basis! (Ask her first if she needs them). CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws wereACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department ofEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. CCWP – TOGETHER, FEARLESS AND UNIFIED Caring Collectively for Peoplein Women’s Prisons. We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons. We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners. We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community. ADVOCATES DEMAND ACTION AS LARGEST WOMEN’S PRISON Advocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak PRESS RELEASE:For Immediate Release:January 5th, 2021Contact:Kelly Savage - 435-559-4093, kellysav2018@gmail.comCourtney Hanson - 916-316-0625, courtney@womenprisoners.orgAdvocates Demand Action as Largest Women's Prison Experiences COVID-19 Outbreak CHOWCHILLA, California - HIGHLIGHTS FROM CURB’S PEOPLE’S PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE From CURB: The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap detailing: Ten prisons directly impacted people prioritized for closure, and why. An analysis of cost-savings to be captured and reinvested in prison-adjacent communities. Data-driven information about the roles racism and draconian sentencing continue to play inboth
35 PALESTINIAN WOMEN YEARNING FOR FREEDOM ON INTERNATIONAL AddameerMarch 8, 2021 Today, as the world commemorates International Women's Day, 35 Palestinian women are yearning for freedom in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Amongst whom are 11 mothers, six wounded prisoners, and three administrative detainees. Palestinian women are subjected to many forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest REPARATIONS FOR CA FORCED STERILIZATION SURVIVORS: SUPPORT dailycal.org By Aminah ElsterApril 2, 2021 Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color suffered forced sterilization. While the state’s eugenics laws wereACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentence BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT A lgbtqnation.com Alex BollingerApril 26, 2021 Ashley Diamond| Photo: SPLC The Biden administration stood up for the safety of transgender women in a first-of-its-kind court filing, saying that it’s unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” to systematically place trans women in men’s prisons and to deny gender-affirming health care to incarcerated trans people. The Department ofEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for GOVERNOR NEWSOM GRANTS RICKIE BLUE-SKY CLEMENCY THROUGH A Governor Newsom grants Rickie Blue-Sky clemency through a medical reprieve. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom granted Executive Clemency to Rickie Blue-Sky, a 75-year-old Native transgender man who has been incarcerated in California for over 37 years. Blue-Sky is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Schitsu’umshTribe in Idaho.
CA PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT Seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL VIOLENCE WILL CLOSE Gov. Philip D. Murphy said that he would shut down Edna Mahan, New Jersey’s only women’s prison, because of a “long history of abusive incidents.” nytimes.com Tracey Tully | June 7, 2021 Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Just over a year ago, the Justice Department offered a scathing indictment of New Jersey’s only prison for women, describing a culture of sexual violencePROGRAMS/CAMPAIGNS
CCWP’s visiting program in California’s women’s prisons is at the core of all our work. We partner with women and trans people inside to publish The Fire Inside Newsletter to give voice to feelings, ideas and art. Together, we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. We support the Spitfire Speakers Bureau as a way for formerly incarcerated people to tell their stories and educateACTION ALERT
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors. We are urging Governor Newsom to grant immediate release for Arlene through a commutation. Arlene Dugmore is a mother, grandmother, and long-term survivor of severe domestic violence who has served 21 years of an extreme sentenceDONATE NOW – CCWP
Donate Now. We rely on the grassroots support of monthly or single donations by people like you. No amount is too small! Your donation supports: How to support: Make an online donation. Mail a check payable to California Coalition for Women Prisoners/LSPC, 4400 Market St., Oakland, CA 94608. We deeply appreciate your support. 31 GUARDS SUSPENDED AT A WOMEN’S PRISON PLAGUED BY SEXUAL Inmates reported being beaten while handcuffed at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey, the state’s only prison for women. The New York TimesBy Tracey TullyJan. 28, 2021 A yearslong pattern of abuse has emerged at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J. Credit: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times For Trimeka Rollins’s daughter, who is 24 and transgender, NewEVENTS FOR JUNE 3
Gabby was commuted from LWOP by Gov. Brown and paroled in March 2021, only to be handed over to ICE. We invite you to join the #FreeGabby campaign on Thursday, June 3rd at 5 PM PT for a powerful letter writing event to support Gabby Solano in the fight to continue to #FreeAllSurvivors. She is a criminalized immigrant survivor who is currently detained by ICE after serving 20 years in prisonWOMEN AND PRISONS
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Northeastern University Press, 1996. Dubbed "a cold, hard view of life of women in American prisons," this book presents the life stories of women prisoners and argues that prison is a form of institutional violence perpetrated primarily against the poor and people of FEDERAL COURT RULES ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN ccrjustice.org Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Extending Oversight of Class-Action Settlement Upheld April 9, 2021, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal court ruled that California’s ongoing violations of the rights of prisoners, including systemic fabrication of information supposedly provided by confidential sources, should be subject to extended judicial monitoring. The ruling against theEVENTS FOR MAY 4
The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund is pleased to invite you to join us and our cohosts for an important discussion and screening featuring the documentary film, Belly of the Beast, which follows illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons and the struggle of impacted women and advocates to see this practice come to light, finally end, and to find a measure of justice for HOW TO BECOME A PENPAL FOR AN INCARCERATED WOMAN How to become a penpal for an incarcerated woman. Contact: Pen Pal Project. P.O. Box 781116. Los Angeles, CA 90016. Jeanne@pieper.com. Some Practical Information. Send your pen pal a few stamps on a regular basis! (Ask her first if she needs them).Skip to content
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