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THEIR NAMES! NO MORE DEATHS! BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME ALIVE! These
calls of grief and rage reverberated through a Town Hall in Oakland this
past July and two months later at a vigil directly in front of the
California Institution Women (CIW). CCWP organized these events working
closely with family members of people who have died at CIW due to
overcrowding, solitary confinement, lack of mental health services and
racist neglect. After three years of insisting that the epidemic of
suicide and death at CIW could not be ignored by the prison authorities
or the California legislature, <b>we finally succeeded in winning an independent investigation of CIW by the State Auditor, one step towards needed change</b>. Our continued pressure also helped push the dysfunctional wardens at CIW and CCWF into early retirement.<br>
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We raised our demands to prison officials and the legislature through
media, hearings, vigils, and town halls. At the same time, we expanded
our visits to the people inside, encouraging their courageous efforts to
support each other. We partnered with the women at CIW to respond to
the traumatic impact of repeated losses. We let family members and
loved ones know that they did not have to deal with this crisis alone.
We were able to sustain this struggle against the callous disregard of
the prison authorities and the lawmakers because we built community at
the same time as we advocated for systemic policy changes.<br>
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Other major highlights of 2016 include:</p>
<ul><li><i><a href="http://alivingchance.com/" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">A Living Chance</a> </i>multi-media storytelling project was included as part of a major exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. <i>A Living Chance </i>uses storytelling and art to educate about the injustice of Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentencing.</li><li>Participation in the national <a href="http://survivedandpunished.org" style="color:rgb(43,170,223);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Survived & Punished</a>
network which helped to publicize and mobilize people to support Bresha
Meadows, a young Black woman who was arrested for defending herself and
her family from her father who had a long history of abusing them.</li><li>Participation
in the Trans Advocacy Group, a collaborative of organizations working
to support incarcerated transgender people in California. CCWP helps the
group coordinate more consistent support for trans men held in women’s
prisons, and advocates for trans women in CA prisons.</li><li>Participation
in the SF No More Jails coalition which defeated a proposed SF county
jail rebuild in December 2015.Participation in the city’s working group
for alternatives to incarceration.</li><li>Continuation of our <i>Fired Up! </i>empowerment group in the SF County jail, our <i>Spitfire Speakers’ Bureau</i> and <i>The Fire Inside Newsletter</i>, now in its twenty-first year of publication.</li><li>Sustaining
five visiting teams that provide legal advocacy and support at all the
women’s state prisons on a bi-monthly basis and expanding out L.A. team
to respond to the CIW crisis.</li></ul>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left">In
this grim political moment, we join with people across the country in
preparing to resist escalating racist, sexist and economic attacks from a
new ultra right-wing administration. Heightened criminalization and
imprisonment of immigrants is one of the many planned assaults that we
intend to fight. Together, collectively, we will stand firm on our core
principles of justice and love.<br>
<br>
Hafsah Al-Amin & Windy Click<br>
Program Coordinators<br>
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I faced the hardest situation of my life, CCWP was there for me. The
very day I received the tragic news of the death of my daughter,
Shaylene Graves, in a California state women's prison, CCWP reached out
to me and my family. Through CCWP's tireless efforts, my family has been
given the strength to fight for justice and seek answers in Shaylene's
death. Through CCWP, I have been introduced to other families that share
my grief and struggle. All of our families have been given a voice
through CCWP's incredible organization and dedication. – Sheri Graves</div>
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