Survived + Punished

New Campaign: Defund Prisons. Defend Survivors!

Oct 20, 2020 | Calls to Action, Case & Campaign Updates, Media, Resources | 1 comment

Survived & Punished CA is excited to announce the launch of the new campaign, #DefundPrisonsDefendSurvivors, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month! This campaign illustrates how the criminal punishment system — ICE, prisons, policing, prosecutors, etc....

Take Action: Tracy McCarter Released from Jail, Still Faces Trial

Oct 10, 2020 | Calls to Action, Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

Tracy McCarter is a nurse and a survivor of domestic violence who was forced to defend her life in March after her husband attacked her. For months, prosecutors not only insisted on punishing her for her act of self-defense, they imprisoned her on Rikers Island...

Interference Archive Series on Survived & Punished NY & Archiving Abolition

Oct 9, 2020 | Media | 0 comments

Interference Archive · AI77.1: Archiving Abolition – Survived & Punished   Interference Archive interviewed Survived and Punished NY, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic...

California governor grants a tiny number of clemencies as thousands in prison infected with Covid-19

Jun 27, 2020 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

Sam Levin at The Guardian reports on the recent paltry number of commutations granted by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Excerpt below: Gavin Newsom, who has faced mounting pressure to release people en masse from state prisons, announced Friday that he is granting commutations to...

Reclaim Pride by Defunding the Police

Jun 14, 2020 | Media | 0 comments

The Advocate features Survived & Punished NYC member, Ash Stephens, who makes the connections between’s Pride’s radical legacy and the call to defund the police. Excerpt below: We all must return Pride to its radical roots by answering the call to...

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Jun 14, 2020 | Media | 0 comments

S&P co-founder, Mariame Kaba, published a visionary op/ed in the New York Times about the movement to abolish the police. Excerpt below: Why on earth would we think the same reforms would work now? We need to change our demands. The surest way of reducing police...