Organizing & Action Updates, CCWP in the News, and Updates on Prisons
Organizing & Action Updates
3rd Annual LWOP Walk for Life Walk-A-Thon
3rd Annual Walk-A-Thon LWOP Walk for Life to raise awareness about Life Without Parole (LWOP) this upcoming Tuesday, September 29th at the State Capitol in Sacramento, CA. The Sacramento event is part of a week of action. From September 26 to October 3, 24+ prison yards throughout the state will participate in a powerful Week of Walks.
Freedom Comes When One Walks Through It
Visitacion Valley Branch Library (plus 2 others), 201 Leland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134
October 3 – 17: Shows at 1pm and 3:15pm each Saturday
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.
CCWP in the News
“No Time to Wait”: The Unseen Costs of Aging in California’s Women’s Prisons
Roughly 30% of California’s prison population is past age 50– and that number is increasing every year.
It costs 2-3x more to incarcerate an elderly person compared to the general population.
That is an annual cost of $255,000–$383,00 per elderly person.
What are the unseen costs of aging in prison?
Warden at Central California Women’s Prison Ousted Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal
The move comes one month after the DOJ found an “unbroken pattern” of sexual assault at the facility.
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR INCARCERATED SURVIVORS
DOJ INVESTIGATION CONFIRMS WIDESPREAD SEXUAL ABUSE IN CDCR WOMEN’S PRISONS
Updates on Prisons
Incarcerated Women Are Pushing for Decarceration, Not “Trauma-Informed” Prisons
Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women’s prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
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.
