Survived + Punished

Videos from S&P 2019 National Convening

Oct 28, 2019 | Events, Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

  The 2019 Survived and Punished National Convening featured a day of panels, strategy sessions, and community building — all with a focus on launching defense campaigns and organizing to free criminalized survivors of racialized gender-based violence. Below are...

I Killed My Partner. It Saved My Life.

Sep 17, 2019 | Media | 0 comments

Powerful reflection by Arlene Adams and a beautiful photo essay by Clara Vannucci @ The New York Times. Arlene Adams draws the connections between the trauma caused by domestic violence and incarceration, the pattern of prosecuting survivors of domestic violence when...

Does Abuse Lead to Incarceration For Girls? Usually Yes

Sep 16, 2019 | Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

Article written by Janelle Hawes and Jerry Flores for Juvenile Justice. Excerpt below: Overall, the girls in this study had to negotiate constant mistreatment across various institutions and by multiple people with little help or relief. Furthermore, 14 of the girls...

New laws in New York and elsewhere could keep women out of prison for crimes against their abusers.

Jun 24, 2019 | Media, Research & Strategy | 0 comments

Article written by Victoria Law for The Atlantic. Excerpt below: On a morning this past March, two dozen women gathered on a Harlem sidewalk. Many had been released from prison over the past decade. They were boarding a charter bus to Albany, where they hoped to...

‘I Was In Constant Fear’: Immigrant Faces Deportation After Prison for Domestic Dispute

Jun 2, 2019 | Calls to Action, Case & Campaign Updates, Media | 0 comments

Below is an excerpt from an article about Aylaliya Birru, a Black immigrant survivor of domestic violence in California who is incarcerated and faces deportation as a consequence for defending her life. Support the grassroots campaign to #FreeLiya here! Article...

Marissa Alexander TED Talk

Jun 1, 2019 | Media | 2 comments

Every day three women in the U.S. are murdered by their domestic partners. But after Marissa Alexander fired a single warning shot as her estranged husband threatened to kill her, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Eventually, Alexander survived both domestic...