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Apr 5-11: #FreeThemAll Week of Action: Defend Survivors, End Carceral Feminism
As a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, join us for the #FreeThemAll Week of Action: Defend Survivors, End Carceral Feminism! During the week, we’ll share information, updates, experiences of survivors, and ways for people to take action. Twitter Convo on...
Activists Are Not Happy With New York’s Plan to Use Prison Labor to Make Hand Sanitizer
Article by Elly Belle at Allure. Excerpt below. To contribute to mutual aid efforts to support people who are incarcerated, please donate here. Advocates working directly on campaigns to end mass incarceration or reform the justice system agree that forcing people who...
California pardoned a gay civil rights leader. Activists want clemency for more LGBTQ+ prisoners
Sam Levin at The Guardian, excerpt below: The California governor [Gavin Newsom] has launched an initiative to grant clemency to people historically prosecuted for being gay, starting with a posthumous pardon for Bayard Rustin, a celebrated gay civil rights leader....
What’s Driving Criminalization of Women & LGBTQ People?
The What's Driving Criminalization of Women & LGBTQ People fact sheet was produced by Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action, an initiative of the Barnard Center for Research on Women Social Justice Institute led by Researchers-in-Residence Andrea J....
“Bail Reform” & Carceral Control: A Critique of New York’s New Bail Laws
Originally published at Law & Political Economy, Survived & Punished NY released an analysis of bail reform in the context of New York's recent bail laws: “Bail Reform” & Carceral Control: A Critique of New York’s New Bail Laws Survived & Punished NY...
The #FreeChrystul defense campaign has a new site!
Chrystul Kizer is a survivor of child human trafficking in Milwaukee who is being prosecuted for self-defense. Check out the new #FreeChrystul website shared by her defense campaign: freechrystul.wordpress.com You can find updates on actions, teach-in/workshop...
Feb 2020 Events
Feb 2, Chicago: Valentines Against Violence & Incarceration February 2 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Join Chicago Books to Women in Prison, Moms United and Read/Write for the 2nd annual Valentines Against Violence & Incarceration. ...
How Far Can Abused Women Go to Protect Themselves?
Article by Elizabeth Flock at The New Yorker about the criminalization of self-defense in cases of sexual and domestic violence. Excerpt below: In the past several decades, imprisonment of women in the United States has increased at a rate twice that of men; there are...
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...
Commutations Campaign Posts
