Caring Collectively for People
in Women’s Prisons
We monitor and challenge the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons.
We fight for the release of women and trans prisoners.
We support women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community.
CCWP 30th Anniversary w/ Angela Davis
Saturday, Oct 11th 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT
“CCWP knows how to effectively combine attentiveness to the immediate situation with the best possible long term solutions. This is an important lesson to all of us who want to ensure that abolition is taken seriously, that abolition is strategically approached. Thank you for your phenomenal and consistent leadership spanning three decades.“
Angela Davis
California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) celebrates 30 years of organizing across the walls of California’s women’s prisons. Since 1995, CCWP has played a unique role in developing an abolitionist feminist vision that is centered around the voices and power of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We have continuously visited women’s prisons and jails in California, fought for and won freedom campaigns, and welcomed those returning home into our community and leadership roles within the organization.
In the past 30 years we have:
- Advocated for criminalized survivors of intimate partner violence.
- Forcefully challenged the brutality of prison staff abuse at FCI Dublin and in the state prisons.
- Helped win reparations for survivors of forced sterilization.
- Contributed to the crafting and passing of the landmark Racial Justice Act (RJA) of 2020.
- Published The Fire Inside since 1996, the only newsletter in the country dedicated to people in women’s prisons.
- Supported the release of countless numbers of women and TGI people through parole and resentencing and involved them in our organization after they were released.
- Helped to reduce the population of CA women’s prisons from over 12,000 in 2010 to 4,000 today, a 65% decrease. This is the basis for our current campaign to close both of the remaining CA women’s prisons – Closure is Possible, Freedom is Necessary!
- Advocated for Immigrant & Refugee community members leaving prison to stop the CDCr to ICE detention & deportation pipeline
Three decades of movement-building has been made possible by you, our community.
Please join us to celebrate!
The challenges we are up against now in 2025 are unprecedented. The racist law and order, anti-immigrant furor and the escalating attacks on women and TGI people directly threaten our work and our community. Your help is critical to fortify our commitment to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in women’s prisons!
We have set a goal of raising $300K for the anniversary, $10,000 for each year we have been doing this work. You can move us toward this goal by purchasing ticket(s) or simply making a donation here.
