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.
April 28, 2021
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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.
April 2, 2021
Organizing & Action Updates
Incarcerated artists collaborate with USF performing arts students for final performance
Check out the artistic collaboration between CCWF incarcerated artists and University of San Francisco performing art students that premiered via zoom on May 13, 2021. View the edited zoom video event!
June 1, 2021
Action Alert 5/25 – SB 300 | The Sentencing Reform Act of 2021
SB 300 will address California’s unjust “felony murder special circumstance” law by ensuring that the death penalty or life without parole (LWOP) cannot be imposed on a person who did not kill, nor intend for anyone to die, during a crime. SB 300 will also ensure that life without parole is NEVER a mandatory minimum sentence in California.
May 25, 2021
ACTION ALERT – Bring Arlene Home & #FreeAllSurvivors
During Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, please join us on Thurs, May 20th for a Day of Action to Bring Arlene Home and #FreeAllSurvivors.
May 20, 2021
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.
June 3, 2021
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.
June 1, 2021
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.
May 27, 2021
Updates on Women Prisons
Women’s Prison Plagued by Sexual Violence Will Close, Governor Says
Just over a year ago, the Justice Department offered a scathing indictment of New Jersey’s only prison for women, describing a culture of sexual violence by guards so entrenched that it violated prisoners’ constitutional protections from cruel and unusual punishment. But the string of scandals continued.
June 9, 2021
It’s too easy to sentence Black people to death in California.
On June 2, the California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in a case that raises serious questions about the constitutionality of how California’s death penalty has been applied.
June 2, 2021
Santa Cruz Women’s Prison Project Collection
CCWP’s ally, Freedom Archives recently processed a new collection of materials related to Bay Area women’s’ prison organizing during the 1970s, the Santa Cruz Women’s Prison Project (SCWPP).
June 1, 2021
