“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...]
De cadena perpetua a fundadora
Dana Cheatum ayuda a mujeres recien liberadas a transformar sus vidas —Traducido Por: Heriberto Arredondo English version: … [Read more...]
Invisible warriors: Author shines light on California’s incarcerated female firefighters
Risking their lives for minimal pay, incarcerated female firefighters in California work to save residential neighborhoods and national … [Read more...]
California allocates $7.5m in reparations for women forcibly, unknowingly sterilized
California has allocated $7.5 million for reparations to survivors who were subjected to state-sponsored sterilization or involuntary sterilization, … [Read more...]
Incarcerated women join California’s firefight: Female prisoners log millions of hours in the battle against the state’s intensifying wildfires
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...]
LWOP women released after years behind bars
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...]
The Fire Inside interview with Kelly Savage (reprint)
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...]
WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: My birth plan is to deliver in a jail cell
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...]
WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: More women are giving birth in prison than ever before
By, Kate McQueen Legislation can improve medical care for pregnant inmates and their infants ONE PREGNANT WOMAN assists another as she … [Read more...]
WALL CITY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2: ‘Little weight or meaning’
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...]