Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency! Analyses & Interviews
After 15 years of incarceration for defending her life, Cyntoia Brown will finally be released. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her sentence following ongoing public support for her freedom. She will be eligible for release on August 7, 2019, and she’ll be...
How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?
Victoria Law @ Filter. Excerpt below: I’ve interviewed numerous adult survivors of domestic violence imprisoned for defending themselves. Again and again, they tell me that they turned to the police and legal system, both of which failed to protect them. Perhaps...
Building Accountable Communities: A Video Series
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be...
How Organizers Made Survivors’ Incarceration an Issue in the Cuomo/Nixon Race
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...
Prosecutor Pursues Murder Charge for Woman Who Defended Herself From Abuser
William C. Anderson from The Appeal. Excerpt below: Jacqueline Dixon’s murder charge came despite the fact that she had requested an order of protection against her husband in 2016 for punching her in the face and verbally abusing her multiple times, and Dixon’s...Commutations Campaign Posts
