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Highlights from CURB’s People’s Plan for Prison Closure
The People’s Plan for Prison Closure is a visionary roadmap, detailing the necessity of prison abolition to uplift our society’s needs. A must read.
Entrapped by Abusers. Imprisoned for Life.
None of these women had a criminal history. They were all raised in abusive homes and victimized by abusive partners. And they all received life sentences.
Organizing & Action Updates
CA Approves $7.5 million Reparations for Sterilization Survivors
California is the first state to provide reparations to survivors who were sterilized while incarcerated in its state women’s prisons.
Gwen Levi Freed by Judge thru Compassionate Release
Scott Roberts, Senior Director of Criminal Justice and Democracy Campaigns at Color Of Change, issued this statement after a federal judge granted compassionate release to 76-year-old Gwen Levi.
Clemency for Gwen Levi
After spending 16 years incarcerated in federal prisons, Gwen Levi was finally home. But one year after her release, Ms. Levi was sent back to prison.
CCWP in the News
Ny Nourn: the woman convicted of murder and pardoned – who now fights for other battered women
When Ny Nourn entered Central California Women’s Facility, the largest women’s prison in the world, there was every reason to believe she would never walk free on American soil again. She was just 21, and had been sentenced to “life without parole” for her part in a hauntingly brutal murder – a part she was forced into.
A Visionary Website: ‘Art Against Imprisonment – From Palestine to the U.S.’
On Sunday, March 21, 2021, a powerful virtual art exhibit featuring art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in occupied Palestine and the U.S. was launched. “Art Against Imprisonment – From Palestine to the U.S.” grew out of a history of active solidarity between movements against imprisonment in the U.S. and Palestine.
Bill seeking reparations for involuntary, forced sterilizations survivors closer to becoming CA law
Over the course of more than a century, thousands of people in California have been forcibly, coercively, or involuntarily sterilized. A bill seeking reparations for California survivors of forced or involuntary sterilizations took one step further this week than it has in previous iterations, working its way through the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Updates on Women Prisons
A grandmother didn’t answer her phone during a class. She was sent back to prison.
In the year she was out of prison, Gwen Levi, 76, was thriving. But Levi’s season on the outside ended June 12 after she attended a computer word-processing class in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
Trans women are still incarcerated with men and it’s putting their lives at risk
Jasmine Rose Jones is a woman. But for much of the last 23 years, she was incarcerated in a men’s facility, and she says she was subjected to rape, sexual assault and abuse, just because she is transgender.
To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them
Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice. When candidates running for prosecutor claim to be on the side of survivors of violence, we always need to take a closer look — and recognize the violence inherent in the office itself.
