Fighting For Our Rights: A Toolbox For Family Advocates Of California Prisoners: Outlines some basic tools that families of California state prisoners can use to fight for the rights of loved ones inside, and gives information on specific issues you may need to advocate about. Since that first four-page issue, The Fire Inside (FI) has evolved in many ways while it has remained true to its original purposes. Many of them, like Mary Shields, served decades in prison before release. Her shame and guilt continued to escalate and she tried to hide this all from her family and friends. Among her numerous achievements, Elaine is most proud of how she has co-parented her son, Glen, alongside her loving husband, Norman. One-fourth]Place your content for the second column here. How to File a CDCR Administrative Appeal (Form 602). The National Lawyers Guild, National Office. The project now includes a podcast. FireStorm – International Solidarity. We have open meetings the first Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm via zoom. California Coalition for Women Prisoners –. Radical Philanthropy. For people currently incarcerated: Published by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Roadmap to Reentry: A California Legal Resource Guide: A guide designed to be a resource of legal information that people can turn to about issues along the path of reentry.
Soon, the effort to free survivors would turn to an even more marginalized population within prisons, those sentenced to life without parole. Full package health benefits, vacation and sick leave. 666 Broadway, 7th Floor. California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). It clicked with all of us. In this way it is different from a traditional prison pen pal program that connects people individually. The Spitfire Speaker's Bureau: Anchored by formerly incarcerated women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people who educate the general public about the realities of life inside prison and the challenges of reentry. Together we build campaigns like DROP LWOP to win freedom. LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people[three-fourths-first]Place your content for the first column here. We call for an end to the fear-mongering being perpetuated by CO's and prison officials, which escalates misconceptions and stigma toward women of trans experience and sows division. Black Lives Matter LA. California coalition for women prisoners. In the throes of this severe addiction, she shot and killed a man, injuring two others, and began serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence.
Across the Walls – Visiting Program. Over the last 40 years we have grown from a small law office to a national organization with a unique approach that engages in law, policy, communications, and community organizing to advance our work. She also found solace in working with Bridges to Life, a restorative justice program.
Shields was released in 2011 on a Habeas filed by CCWP, and the organization provided access to financial and emotional support. Visiting Program: Our visiting program is at the core of all our work. This workshop will provide an introduction to CCWP's work, with opportunities to follow up by joining the Writing Warriors program, or joining one of their local chapters. Issue of the Fire Inside focusing on bullying, but also including a tribute to Flozelle Muka Woodmore and reporting from the Chowchilla Freedom rally. In this workshop, CCWP will present on the history and current status of their work, including Writing Warriors, a project that connects 60 members inside and outside in a letter writing program. The PIC has a global reach which is rooted in racist, gendered and economic violence. California state prison for women. Published by INCITE! Participants will create an original watercolor painting, inspired by the current OXY ARTS exhibition EJ Hill: Wherever we will to root. CCWP is fighting relentlessly for their release, along with hundreds of other people sentenced to death by incarceration. Episode 2: This Happened to Me.