Sep 13, 2018 | Media, Research & Strategy |
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...
Aug 10, 2018 | Research & Strategy |
by Gail T. Smith As we focus on the Survived and Punished #FreeThemAll National Week of Action, it’s eye-opening to consider state legislation introduced with the intent of providing a legal remedy to unjust incarceration of survivor-defendants who were criminalized...
Aug 7, 2018 | Media, Research & Strategy, Survivor Messages |
In this excerpt from her conversation with writer Victoria Law, Valerie Seeley expresses her commitment to helping other women criminalized for survival and asking Cuomo to grant more clemencies. Valerie Seeley is a survivor of domestic violence. In 1998 Valerie was...
Feb 4, 2018 | Research & Strategy |
Ny Nourn reports back from a strategy session. Does the #MeToo anti-violence movement reach survivors of domestic and sexual violence in California’s women’s prisons? Recent reforms to curb mass incarceration in the U.S. have reduced the total number of men in state...
Jun 29, 2017 | Media, Research & Strategy |
Great interview of Rachel Caidor from Love and Protect and Colby Lenz from California Coalition for Women Prisoners discussing the political vision of the Survived and Punished coalition; the recent No Perfect Victims convening of criminalized survivors and community...
Jun 29, 2017 | Media, Research & Strategy |
Now Available: A downloadable toolkit for organizing defense campaigns for criminalized survivors of violence. #SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis is a collection of tools, tips, lessons and resources developed through our own...
