Organizing & Action Updates, CCWP in the News, and Updates on Prisons
Organizing & Action Updates
FREE JOAN LITTLE
Hope you can join CCWP and partners for a Bay Area premiere screening of FREE JOAN LITTLE with Yoruba Richen, the film’s director. The film sheds light on important history for those of us fighting against sexual abuse in SF County jail. This new documentary tells the story of the 1975 groundbreaking case of Joan Little who was the first woman in U.S history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault in a jail.
TAKE ACTION BELOW – STOP THE MURDERS!!!
Follow the link to a TOOL KIT to take action in the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, killed by ICE in Houston, TX last week.
Support Brenda Barrera’s and Otilia Pineda’s Resentencing
Two women in CCWF who are affected by the Prop 57 litigation and can’t go home to their families despite BPH grants. Thankfully, we’ve been given the opportunity for resentencing through the court. As such, I’m calling for letters of support …
CCWP in the News
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR INCARCERATED SURVIVORS
DOJ INVESTIGATION CONFIRMS WIDESPREAD SEXUAL ABUSE IN CDCR WOMEN’S PRISONS
Journalist, Elder Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Perpetual Detention Unjust, Human Rights Groups Appeal to United Nations
For more than 44 years, U.S. citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal has been arbitrarily detained in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, Abolitionist Law Center and a national coalition of other human rights organizations – American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and Release Aging People in Prison Campaign – submitted a petition to a United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking relief.
California bill would let abuse victims use trauma as legal defense for violent crime
Susan Bustamante isn’t giving up.
The formerly incarcerated 71-year-old woman has repeatedly made the long trip from Orange County to Sacramento to urge lawmakers to pass legislation she believes would help her fellow domestic abuse victims facing criminal charges.
Updates on Prisons
Releases, Not Transfers, Must Be at the Center of Prison Closure Plans
As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.
US DOJ Finds ‘Unbroken Pattern’ of Sexual Abuse by California Prison Staff
A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at the state’s correctional facilities.
Justice Department Finds California Women’s Prisons Violate the Constitution by Failing to Protect Female Prisoners from Sexual Abuse by Staff
The Justice Department announced today that it has reasonable cause to believe that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, and the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino are violating the U.S. Constitution by failing to protect female prisoners from sexual abuse and harassment by s
