Survived + Punished

How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?

Oct 4, 2018 | Media | 0 comments

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

Sep 27, 2018 | Events, Media | 0 comments

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

Sep 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

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

Aug 25, 2018 | Media | 0 comments

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...

S&P Member, Ny Nourn, Gives TED Talk

Aug 20, 2018 | Media, Survivor Messages | 0 comments

  S&P California member, Ny Nourn, recently gave this TED talk describing her experiences with immigration to the U.S. as a Cambodian refugee, surviving domestic violence, being convicted for the actions of her batterer and sentenced to life without the...

Andrew Cuomo Under Pressure To Free Women Imprisoned For Killing Abusers

Aug 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

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...