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…
Formerly & currently incarcerated women came together to form the National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women to learn from & support each other's efforts #InternationalWomensDaythenation.com/article/archiv…
In Louisiana, formerly incarcerated, formerly criminalized and family members w loved ones entangled in legal system teamed up to create Participatory Defense NOLA #InternationalWomensDayprogressive.org/magazine/whose…
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. #InternationalWomensDaygothamist.com/news/new-yorke…