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
Advocates urge governor to commute all life sentences
SACRAMENTO — The members of the Drop Life Without Parole, a grassroots coalition and sentencing reform group, along with other advocacy organizations, are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences of more than 5,000 individuals serving life sentences in California before he leaves office.
“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.
Updates on Prisons
Women’s Mass Incarceration:The Whole Pie 2026
With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women’s experiences with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and other correctional facilities in the United States?
This New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison
Families of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for reforms that passed last week.
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.
