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Court orders California prison population reduction plan in 21 days
Advocates push to bring prisoners home by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento – Yesterday’s ultimatum by the three-judge panel puts Gov. Brown and the California...
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Wanda’s Picks for September 2013
by Wanda Sabir We remember George Duke, Margaret Marian McPartland and Cedar Walton, who joined the ancestors before many of us were ready to let them go. Our condolences to their families. The New...
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Women in solitary: ‘Last night another girl hung herself’
by Diana Block and Misty Rojo, California Coalition for Women Prisoners “Last night another girl hung herself, and as they drug her out of her cell and down the stairs and put her on the stretcher it...
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Advocates call budget plans to open new prison beds a major contradiction
by Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento – Gov. Brown’s 2014-15 budget will contract 5,633 new prison beds in state while funding the expansion of four new prisons and allocating $500...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2014
by Wanda Sabir I am recovering from a huge blow – my computer was taken along with other personal irreplaceable items in Carpinteria, a bedroom suburb outside Santa Barbara. We stopped by Loon Point to...
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Wanda’s Picks for March 2014
by Wanda Sabir Russell Maroon Shoatz is out of solitary confinement! Hugo Pinnell had his first contact visit in 40 years last weekend. Kiilu Nyasha announced this wonderful news at a reception...
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Stop the McFarland GEO women’s prison!
Open letter by the undersigned prisoners We the undersigned, incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) and the California Institution for Women (CIW), are outraged that CDCR has signed...
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Gov. Jerry Brown signs SB 1135, Prison Anti-Sterilization Bill
by Misty Rojo Sacramento – On Sept. 25, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law SB 1135, the prison anti-sterilization bill authored by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson and bi-partisan co-authors and sponsored by...
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A village cannot be built in a jail: Why gender responsive is not gender justice
by Misty Rojo of Justice Now and California Coalition for Women Prisoners The issue of “gender responsiveness” as an excuse to open more prisons has been rearing its ugly head lately with the expansion...
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A village cannot be built in a jail: Why gender responsive is not gender justice
by Misty Rojo of Justice Now and California Coalition for Women Prisoners The issue of “gender responsiveness” as an excuse to open more prisons has been rearing its ugly head lately with the expansion...
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Forcing out two women’s prison wardens is scapegoating, not accountability
by Misty Rojo On the surface, the recent “retirement” of the wardens from two of California’s women’s facilities appears to be a needed move in an effort to reform California’s violent correctional...
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