Sep 24, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates |
BACKGROUND: Tammy Garvin is an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence and sex trafficking who has been in prison for 27 years as a result of her trafficker/abuser’s lethal violence. Tammy was only 14 years old when she was trafficked, and by the time she was...
Sep 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media, Research & Strategy |
Kelly Hayes interviews S&P member, Mariame Kaba, about the S&P commutation campaign in New York.Truthout. Excerpt below: Hayes: Cynthia Nixon’s promise to commute the sentences of criminalized survivors, if she is elected, was a surprise to many. What do you...
Aug 20, 2018 | Media, Survivor Messages |
S&P California member, Ny Nourn, recently gave this TED talk describing her experiences with immigration to the U.S. as a Cambodian refugee, surviving domestic violence, being convicted for the actions of her batterer and sentenced to life without the...
Aug 13, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media |
Melissa Jeltsen @ Huffington Post. Excerpt below: Ericka Persson, an advocate with Survived and Punished, called [Governor Andrew Cuomo’s clemency] guidelines “ambiguous and arbitrary” and said they could be changed. “Cuomo has the power to free these...
Aug 7, 2018 | Case & Campaign Updates, Media, Survivor Messages |
In this excerpt from her conversation with writer Victoria Law, Valerie Seeley expresses her commitment to helping other women criminalized for survival and asking Cuomo to grant more clemencies. Valerie Seeley is a survivor of domestic violence. In 1998 Valerie was...
