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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...
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 her...
Now Available: Toolkit to Organize Letterwriting Events
Download S&P Toolkit to Organize Letterwriting Events! Writing letters is a critical tool to overcome the isolation and erasure of people who are incarcerated. Gathering in a group to write can be a way to take collective action, to show solidarity, and to support...
Tondalao Hall Is Free!
We are thrilled to share that Tondalao Hall is free after being released from Mabel Basset Correctional Facility yesterday afternoon! Last month, the Oklahoma Pardon & Parole Board unanimously voted in favor of a commutation of Tondalao's 30 year sentence, a...
Videos from S&P 2019 National Convening
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...
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