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...
State Prison Rally Highlights Lawsuit, and Horrific Conditions for Women, Trans Prisoners
Article by Crescenzo Vellucci for the Davis Vanguard. Excerpt below: The CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation has, according to a pending lawsuit and speakers at a rally Wednesday at the agency’s downtown offices, engaged in “sexual and gender-based violence,...
Child Law Penalizes Moms for Abusive Partners
Article written by Angelika Albaladejo for Capital & Main. Excerpt below… Ingrid Archie thought she was doing everything right to protect her children. She got a restraining order against her abusive partner and moved into a domestic violence shelter with...Commutations Campaign Posts
