Washington State is planning to build a new women’s prison in Thurston County, on Cowlitz and Chehalis land, that will incarcerate 700 people. 98% of people in women’s prisons are survivors of violence. Prisons are brutal places that harm and endanger our communities. We want WA to stop investing in racist, sexist, anti-poor, ableist, homophobic, […]
Join the #MeTooBehindBars campaign for a twitter convo and teach-in on sexual violence and harassment in jails and prisons. Follow the hashtag #MeTooBehindBars.
UC Riverside Ethnic Studies Critical Antiviolence Research and Action Transformative Justice Book Discussion on Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Wednesday, April 8 at 3:30-5pm PT/5:30-7pm CT/6:30-8pm ET Join us for a virtual book discussion on this roundbreaking new book as part of the National Virtual Support of Criminalized Survivors! To […]
Hosted by California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Parole Preparation Project, CURB, and Release Aging People in Prison Wednesday, April 8 @ 4pm PT/7pm ET Join organizers and survivors of incarceration from California and New York for a discussion about the urgency of clemency and release in the era of COVID-19. Register: bit.ly/ClemencyC2C
Join the #FreeThemAll: Defending Criminalized Survivors Webinar. Learn more about current survivor defense campaigns and how you can take action to #FreeThemAll! #SurvivedAndPunished Register at bit.ly/DefendSurvivors2020
Join the #FreeLiyah camapign to demand that the Governor Newsom grant #ClemencyNow to #FreeLiyah and #FreeThemAll. Take action here: bit.ly/FreeLiyahCOVID19
On Friday April 10th, join us to light a candle and hold space for our loved ones, comrades, and friends inside, and demand that New York’s Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bill DeBlasio, and NYC’s District Attorneys #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth. We honor the lives of those who the state has killed through incarceration and recommit to the fight to […]
Hosted by Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) Join the online conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elliott Fukui on the intersections of disability justice and transformative justice. For more information, please visit the BCRW website.
Join us every other Saturday from 12 to 1 pm PT for a virtual letter writing session via Zoom. We will be hosting these sessions through spring and possibly into summer. This April 11 event is the first of the series and is hosted by the S&P Survivor Defense Network for the #FreeThemAll Week of […]
Get involved in the fight to stop Washington State from building a new women's prison! Washington State’s Department of Corrections is trying to repurpose a closed youth jail into a new women’s prison. They are pitching this as a humane solution to overcrowding in existing prisons. We know that a new prison just puts more […]