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California legislature advances bill to compensate victims of involuntary sterilization

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Pending legislature aims to compensate victims of an old California policy that once resulted in forced or involuntary sterilization on individuals … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal Tagged With: Assembly Bill 1764, California’s eugenic sterilization program, CCWP

CCWP advocates mount a fight to end LWOP

November 15, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Courtesy of CCWP

Advocates are mounting a fight to end the other death penalty—life without the possibility of parole. These “hidden death sentences” mean prisoners … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Death Penalty, Featured, Prison Reform Tagged With: Board of Parole Hearings, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Institution for Women, CCWP, LWOP

Alisha Coleman: Change Agent

September 30, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Nobody needs to tell Alisha Coleman what jail is all about. She has been there and knows what it’s like from the inside. She spent time in the San … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Profiles, Recently Posted Tagged With: CCWP, FiredUp! Group

Raising awareness California’s ‘Life Without’

June 13, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

MCs Adrienne Skye Roberts and Aminah Colbert with Panelists Terah “Sage” Lawyer, Ny Nourn and June Lee

More than 100 advocates, family members and friends chanted, “Drop LWOP, drop LWOP, commute all 5,000!” at an Oakland town hall on March 24, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Adrienne Roberts, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Institution for Women, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CCWF, CCWP, CCWP rally, CCWP’s “A Living Chance”, Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, CIW, Corona, CURB, Death Row, Ivette Alé, June Lee, life without parole sentences, LWOP, Ny Nourn, Oakland, Terah “Sage” Lawyer, The Fire Inside

California Coalition for Women Prisoners Introduces Alisha Coleman to the world

January 18, 2018 by Jessica Bennett Roberts

Alisha Coleman and Hafsah Al-Amin at the CCWP Office

  I introduce to you Alisha Coleman, our new staff at the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Alisha was introduced to CCWP through the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, Human Interest, Parole and Release, Prison Programs, Profiles Tagged With: CCWP

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