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Take Action! Bedford Correctional Facility is denying food to incarcerated people
Survived and Punished NY has learned from incarcerated people that the Bedford Correctional Facility is denying food to them in the midst of a pandemic. Demand that people have immediate access to food and tell Gov. Cuomo to #FreeThemAll and grant clemencies to save...
Spring 2020: #SocialBridging for COVID19
#SocialBridging: the abolitionist practice of building and maintaining new pathways for connection, collaboration and coalition with people inside and outside of prison during the rise of ecofascism, climate catastrophe, and increasing state violence in order to...
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 National Virtual 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....
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. ...
Commutations Campaign Posts
