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If you want more events like our Women in Prison Conference and more work to lift up the voices of women in prison and build a more gender-responsive justice system: donate! Your support is vital to growing our Women's Justice Project. Thank you! #WIPConf forms.donorsnap.com/form?id=f1f1dd…
Our next speaker, our Women's Justice Project Director Julia Yoshimoto will be talking about our #HerStoryOregon Survey of women incarcerated at Coffee Creek in #Oregon. That's just one of the initiatives our WJP has launched. #WIPConf ojrc.info/herstory-orego…
Our #HerStoryOregon Survey reports so far (more to come) focus on women's experience of intimate partner violence and also mental health, physical health & addiction. #WIPConf ojrc.info/herstory-orego… 
How an abusive relationship led to prison - for the victim. Many justice-involved women in #Oregon have similar stories. Zuleyma describes getting arrested for selling drugs. She became involved in crime thru coercion. Watch the full video bit.ly/2IFIeOW #HerStoryOregon
There are many more stories shared by women with experience of Oregon's justice system at our #HerStoryOregon site. Learn more - herstoryoregon.org/about
Interview and videography by Greta Smith. Editing by @AliceOJRC
Today, we are honored to share with you Zuleyma Figueroa's story as part of our Women's Justice Project #HerStoryOregon effort. This is Part 1 of 4, and each week over the next month we will be sharing a new chapter of Zuleyma's story. herstoryoregon.org/stories/2019/5… 1/
We are grateful to Zuleyma for sharing her story with us and her experiences that led her to the criminal justice system. 2/
There are many lessons we can learn from Zuleyma's story and we hope that you will take the time read it and check-in with us each week on Thursday, as we post a new chapter. 3/
