Dec 19, 2018 | Calls to Action, Case & Campaign Updates |
Survived & Punished joins thousands of others in the call for the clemency of Cyntoia Brown, a young Black woman in Tennessee who, in 2004, was sentenced to life imprisonment for defending her life while in the sex industry at 16-years-old. TAKE ACTION: Visit...
Nov 28, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates |
On November 21, 2018, Tammy Garvin was commuted by Governor Jerry Brown!! We are elated that Tammy now has a chance at parole and release. Tammy is a survivor of domestic violence and sex trafficking who was sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP),...
Nov 17, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates |
Dear Supporters of Kelly Savage, We are absolutely thrilled to share that Kelly Savage was released from prison last week!!! Governor Jerry Brown commuted Kelly’s Life Without Possibility of Parole (LWOP) sentence in December 2017, making her eligible for parole....
Sep 24, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates |
BACKGROUND: Tammy Garvin is an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence and sex trafficking who has been in prison for 27 years as a result of her trafficker/abuser’s lethal violence. Tammy was only 14 years old when she was trafficked, and by the time she was...
Sep 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media, Research & Strategy |
Kelly Hayes interviews S&P member, Mariame Kaba, about the S&P commutation campaign in New York.Truthout. Excerpt below: Hayes: Cynthia Nixon’s promise to commute the sentences of criminalized survivors, if she is elected, was a surprise to many. What do you...
Aug 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media |
Melissa Jeltsen @ Huffington Post. Excerpt below: Ericka Persson, an advocate with Survived and Punished, called [Governor Andrew Cuomo’s clemency] guidelines “ambiguous and arbitrary” and said they could be changed. “Cuomo has the power to free these...
