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
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.
Women and gender
Information and data on gender disparities in the criminal legal system. Specifically noted is the CCWP report No Time to Wait: A Case for Releasing Elders from California’s Women’s Prisons
Updates on Prisons
California is preparing to build nursing homes for people in prison instead of pathways for release
California’s oldest prison, the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, was built in 1852. It is not technically a medical facility, but you wouldn’t know it by the number of bright yellow mobility and hearing impaired vests work and the dozens of slow moving people hunched over with canes.
DHS purchases two California detention facilities from CoreCivic in nearly $1.5 billion deal
US government buys Otay Mesa Detention Center
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
