S&P New York’s analysis of criminal punishment system reforms passed in New York in 2019. We, like other abolitionists, are working to understand exactly what the pandemic’s immediate and long term effects are, and to continue our work under these new conditions. We hope that this abolitionist assessment of these recent reforms can serve as a durable resource for organizers considering progressive-seeming but carceral state-expanding legislation and policies that come about in their locales, both during this pandemic and beyond. (Link)

This toolkit was created for those grappling with how to support survivors through intimate partner violence, with the intent of strengthening community-level responses to abuse by sharing practical skills and information for safety planning. Though it was written with prison abolitionist and activist communities in mind, it is also intended to be a useful resource for a broader range of people across varying experiences. (Link)

This guides is specific to New York and designed to walk people through the options for clemency and parole that are available and explain the processes for relief. California Coalition for Women Prisoners guide also at the link. (Link)

This toolkit is designed for anyone interested in organizing a letter writing gathering to support incarcerated survivors of violence. It will provide a concrete set of steps, lists of materials, and considerations when putting together an event, picking a date, selecting a venue, and planning for responses to your letters. (Link)

Criminalizing Survival includes curriculum units and activities that can be used for political education focused on the intersections between racialized gender-based violence and criminalization. Some of the activities also address the problems of carceral feminisms and crimmigration. This resource is intended to help activists, advocates, organizers and community members to learn more about the criminalization of domestic violence survivors. (Link)

Newsletters printed by prison abolitionists for, by and about incarcerated people have a long history. In the U.S., newsletters such as No More Cages and Through the Looking Glass published monthly newsletters to send to women inside prisons throughout the 1970’s and 80’s. These newsletters creatively forged a model for “inside/ outside” organizing that amplified stories and methods of connection by bridging the contact gaps between survivors inside, survivors outside, and their advocates and allies. Survived & Punished NY has joined these abolitionist formations in offering another platform of support to criminalized survivors and building a movement across the prison walls. (Link)