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New S.F. Transitional Housing Community for Women

February 27, 2022 by Bruce Bowman

“We wanted color, never wanting to see prison gray again” An apartment complex in San Francisco is now home to formerly incarcerated women who were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Re-Entry, Recently Posted Tagged With: Reentry, women in prison

De cadena perpetua a fundadora

December 28, 2021 by Vincent O'Bannon

Dana Cheatum ayuda a mujeres recien liberadas a transformar sus vidas —Traducido Por: Heriberto Arredondo English version: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Español, Re-Entry, Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner, Spanish, Women in Prison Tagged With: women in prison

Invisible warriors: Author shines light on California’s incarcerated female firefighters

December 26, 2021 by Joshua Grant

Risking their lives for minimal pay, incarcerated female firefighters in California work to save residential neighborhoods and national … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Recently Posted, Women in Prison Tagged With: CAL FIRE, women in prison

California allocates $7.5m in reparations for women forcibly, unknowingly sterilized

November 27, 2021 by William Tobert

California has allocated $7.5 million for reparations to survivors who were subjected to state-sponsored sterilization or involuntary sterilization, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Legal, Prison Stories Tagged With: legal, women in prison

Incarcerated women join California’s firefight: Female prisoners log millions of hours in the battle against the state’s intensifying wildfires

October 30, 2021 by Amir Shabazz

Year-round, incarcerated women in California prisons are putting their lives on the line fighting fires up and down the state to limit major … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Human Interest, Women in Prison Tagged With: firefighter, women in prison

LWOP women released after years behind bars

July 31, 2021 by Nathan McKinney

Women who have served decades in California's state prisons are given a second chance at life after enduring some of the state’s harsher sentencing. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Women in Prison Tagged With: women in prison

The Fire Inside interview with Kelly Savage (reprint)

December 31, 2020 by Administrators

We [The Fire Inside] interviewed Kelly Savage, freed in Nov. 2018 after 23 years of an LWOP sentence. Kelly has been busy coordinating the Drop LWOP … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Women in Prison Tagged With: The Fire Inside, women in prison

WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: My birth plan is to deliver in a jail cell

October 21, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

A true story of women on their own in an Oklahoma lockup By Laci Berg as told to Mary Fish Story courtesy of Victoria Law My name is Laci. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted, WALL CITY, Women in Prison Tagged With: birth plan, Oklahoma, women in prison

WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: More women are giving birth in prison than ever before

October 21, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

By, Kate McQueen Legislation can improve medical care for pregnant inmates and their infants ONE PREGNANT WOMAN assists another as she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WALL CITY, Women in Prison Tagged With: pregnant inmates, women in prison

WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: ‘Little weight or meaning’

October 21, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

California Senate Bills do little to help victims of sexual violence requesting parole By Lilliana Paratore and Sara Kruzan In this post-#MeToo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WALL CITY, Women in Prison Tagged With: Wall City Magazine, women in prison, womens issue

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