California pardoned a gay civil rights leader. Activists want clemency for more LGBTQ+ prisoners
Sam Levin at The Guardian, excerpt below: The California governor [Gavin Newsom] has launched an initiative to grant clemency to people historically prosecuted for being gay, starting with a posthumous pardon for Bayard Rustin, a celebrated gay civil rights leader....
How Far Can Abused Women Go to Protect Themselves?
Article by Elizabeth Flock at The New Yorker about the criminalization of self-defense in cases of sexual and domestic violence. Excerpt below: In the past several decades, imprisonment of women in the United States has increased at a rate twice that of men; there are...
The year’s Top 10 important news stories you probably don’t know about
Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor at Project Censored, highlights the criminalization of survivors and media coverage of Survived & Punished as a top 25 censored news story of 2019. Excerpt below: Every year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most...
Bresha Meadows Thought You’d Understand
by Melissa Jeltsen at the Huffington Post. Excerpt below: There are things that Bresha Meadows remembers about the night she killed her father and things she doesn’t. She tells me this as she slowly picks apart a chocolate chip cookie, discarding the stale edges....
Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019
by Aleks Kajstura for the Prison Policy Initiative. Excerpt below: With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women’s experience with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and other correctional...Commutations Campaign Posts
