For #InternationalWomensDay, a short thread highlighting some efforts by formerly and currently incarcerated women to dismantle mass incarceration. First, in Atlanta, formerly incarcerated women pushed to close an 1100-bed jail:
zora.medium.com/these-formerly…
Trans women imprisoned in CA men's prisons fight for their safety--both individually and collectively truthout.org/articles/calif…
Incarcerated women blow the whistle on COVID conditions behind bars--and in Indiana, manage to overturn a potentially lethal summer policy truthout.org/articles/incar…
As long as there have been prisons, there have been acts of individual resistance and collective organizing within them. But acts by incarcerated women often garner less attention teenvogue.com/story/prisons-…
Efforts by formerly incarcerated women to chip away at mass incarceration aren't limited to the U.S. @DebKilroy at Sisters Inside has done tremendous work to free Aboriginal women wagingnonviolence.org/2019/05/freebl…
Dolores Canales survived #solitaryconfinement & has fought for years to end the practice in CA prisons #InternationalWomensDay inthesetimes.com/article/sons-i…
Formerly & currently incarcerated women came together to form the National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women to learn from & support each other's efforts #InternationalWomensDay thenation.com/article/archiv…
In NY, imprisoned law librarian Karen Thomas devoted hours to helping hundreds of women challenge decisions from parole denials to nursery denials #InternationalWomensDay jezebel.com/mothers-are-in…
In Louisiana, formerly incarcerated, formerly criminalized and family members w loved ones entangled in legal system teamed up to create Participatory Defense NOLA #InternationalWomensDay progressive.org/magazine/whose…
I forgot that the Jezebel story didn't include photos. Here's the @typeinvestigate version which includes pic of Karen Thomas, now out of prison & talking with me about helping incarcerated mothers advocate (over pierogi & blintzes) #InternationalWomensDay typeinvestigations.org/investigation/…
Formerly incarcerated DV survivors played a key role in passing New York's Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (I did not choose the headline) #InternationalWomensDay theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
More on the advocacy efforts of formerly & then-incarcerated domestic violence survivors for the DV Survivors Justice Act #InternationalWomensDay america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/…
Val Seeley is now out of prison, having gotten the golden ticket of clemency from Cuomo. Now she's fighting for hundreds of others to get the same second chance. #InternationalWomensDay gothamist.com/news/new-yorke…
If you want to learn more, I wrote an entire book on resistance & organizing in women's prisons (and immigrant detention) #InternationalWomensDay pmpress.org/index.php?l=pr…

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