@womenscja.bsky.social
HEY, NEW YORK! This is an EXCELLENT week to call your assembly reps and tell them to vote YES on the #PLANAct, which helps level the field in professional licensing for people with conviction histories.
More info: www.womenscja.org/ny_prelimina...
Find your rep:
nyassembly.gov/mem/search/
More info: www.womenscja.org/ny_prelimina...
Find your rep:
nyassembly.gov/mem/search/
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
HEY, NEW YORK! This is an EXCELLENT week to call your assembly reps and tell them to vote YES on the #PLANAct, which helps level the field in professional licensing for people with conviction histories.
More info: www.womenscja.org/ny_prelimina...
Find your rep:
nyassembly.gov/mem/search/
More info: www.womenscja.org/ny_prelimina...
Find your rep:
nyassembly.gov/mem/search/
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Join us for a great conversation tonight!
Join us this Thursday 3/20 for a virtual conversation with @hughryan.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan about the past and present of women's incarceration in NYC and bold visions for abolition and reform!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Join us for a great conversation tonight!
Rikers Island has claimed another life. Rest in power, Sonia Reyes. gothamist.com/news/woman-d...
Woman dies at Rikers Island, NYC jail officials say — 4th detainee death of 2025
The notorious jail complex is on pace to match or exceed the five detainee deaths recorded last year.
gothamist.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Rikers Island has claimed another life. Rest in power, Sonia Reyes. gothamist.com/news/woman-d...
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Join us this Thursday 3/20 for a virtual conversation with @hughryan.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan about the past and present of women's incarceration in NYC and bold visions for abolition and reform!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Join us this Thursday 3/20 for a virtual conversation with @hughryan.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan about the past and present of women's incarceration in NYC and bold visions for abolition and reform!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us this Thursday 3/20 for a virtual conversation with @hughryan.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan about the past and present of women's incarceration in NYC and bold visions for abolition and reform!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Join us this Thursday 3/20 for a virtual conversation with @hughryan.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan about the past and present of women's incarceration in NYC and bold visions for abolition and reform!
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us on March 1 from 2-5 PM at Weeksville Heritage Center for a day of healing for women and gender-expansive people!
Performances, care stations, and workshops; food and childcare provided!
bit.ly/rpmp-weeksville-healing
Performances, care stations, and workshops; food and childcare provided!
bit.ly/rpmp-weeksville-healing
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Join us on March 1 from 2-5 PM at Weeksville Heritage Center for a day of healing for women and gender-expansive people!
Performances, care stations, and workshops; food and childcare provided!
bit.ly/rpmp-weeksville-healing
Performances, care stations, and workshops; food and childcare provided!
bit.ly/rpmp-weeksville-healing
Join us TONIGHT for this year's first Justice4Women Task Force meeting and get to know WCJA's legislative priorities with Director of Advocacy and LGBTQ+ Initiatives @edidin.bsky.social! 6 PM EST; scan QR code or join meeting at www.google.com/url?q=https:...
February 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join us TONIGHT for this year's first Justice4Women Task Force meeting and get to know WCJA's legislative priorities with Director of Advocacy and LGBTQ+ Initiatives @edidin.bsky.social! 6 PM EST; scan QR code or join meeting at www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Trans women are women, and denying anyone gender-aligned housing and necessary medical care is cruel and unusual.
New: A Boston federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...
US judge blocks transgender inmate's prison transfer under Trump order
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trans women are women, and denying anyone gender-aligned housing and necessary medical care is cruel and unusual.
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"[T]he crisis of violence and dehumanization and debasement that trans folks are facing in our prison system is one of the greater crises that trans people are facing in this country, period."
The full extent to which many of Trump’s executive orders will play out is still unknown, but there are already some immediate ramifications for trans people in federal custody.
How Is Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Being Used? Here’s What We Know.
Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.
truthout.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"[T]he crisis of violence and dehumanization and debasement that trans folks are facing in our prison system is one of the greater crises that trans people are facing in this country, period."
Thinking a lot about community and mutual aid as federal programs are frozen; and how to integrate those things into the fabric of our communities sturdily enough to compensate in times like these.
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thinking a lot about community and mutual aid as federal programs are frozen; and how to integrate those things into the fabric of our communities sturdily enough to compensate in times like these.
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So, this little dude is for a workshop that I'm developing at @womenscja.bsky.social. If you would be interested in hosting or partnering with us for an in-person or virtual workshop on writing and delivering public testimony--especially if it's for youth--HMU!
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January 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
So, this little dude is for a workshop that I'm developing at @womenscja.bsky.social. If you would be interested in hosting or partnering with us for an in-person or virtual workshop on writing and delivering public testimony--especially if it's for youth--HMU!
Charizma Jones was a brilliant light, a promising young artist, loving and beloved. Her loss is a tragedy; the circumstances of her death, a travesty for which the city must answer. Let Charizma Jones's legacy be this: NOT ONE MORE.
What Happened To Charizma Jones? Black Women Dies In NYC Jail After Staff Neglect
According to AP, Charizma Jones was being held at Rikers Island when the 23-year-old fell into a coma and died of apparent organ failure.
newsone.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Charizma Jones was a brilliant light, a promising young artist, loving and beloved. Her loss is a tragedy; the circumstances of her death, a travesty for which the city must answer. Let Charizma Jones's legacy be this: NOT ONE MORE.
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In 2021, California lawmakers passed a reparations program to provide $35,000 for people who were involuntarily sterilized while in state custody. But that program has compensated only a fraction of the around 800 women identified by a state audit. boltsmag.org/forced-...
For Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons, a Rushed Shot at Justice
A state board deciding reparations for women sterilized against their will rejected most applications. Advocates are now racing against a January deadline for victims to appeal.
boltsmag.org
December 21, 2024 at 2:00 AM
In 2021, California lawmakers passed a reparations program to provide $35,000 for people who were involuntarily sterilized while in state custody. But that program has compensated only a fraction of the around 800 women identified by a state audit. boltsmag.org/forced-...
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An honor to talk with @victorialaw.bsky.social about reporting on folks the media typically ignores, how prison officials use the pretext of safety to continue punitive pandemic-related policies & the Long Covid crisis behind bars. Now up at @prismreports.bsky.social prismreports.org/2024/12/16/h...
How prisons become ‘corridors of contagion’ during a pandemic
Victoria Law’s new book follows five incarcerated individuals who endured the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic behind bars
prismreports.org
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
An honor to talk with @victorialaw.bsky.social about reporting on folks the media typically ignores, how prison officials use the pretext of safety to continue punitive pandemic-related policies & the Long Covid crisis behind bars. Now up at @prismreports.bsky.social prismreports.org/2024/12/16/h...
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"This growing body of research refutes the rampant myths and fear-mongering that suggest pretrial detention ... is ultimately in everyone’s best interests. They show that even a day or two in jail can cause immense and long-lasting harm — harm that judges tragically and systematically ignore."
December 12, 2024 at 3:26 AM
"This growing body of research refutes the rampant myths and fear-mongering that suggest pretrial detention ... is ultimately in everyone’s best interests. They show that even a day or two in jail can cause immense and long-lasting harm — harm that judges tragically and systematically ignore."
Access to media and communication with loved ones are vital to the well-being of incarcerated people; and as carceral facilities rely more and more on tablets for those things, it's vital that they remain accessible and affordable.
Tablets are quickly becoming indispensable behind bars. They give access to books, music, games, etc.
But since they haven't been under scrutiny, they've become another way for telecom companies to squeeze money from incarcerated people & their loved ones
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/09...
But since they haven't been under scrutiny, they've become another way for telecom companies to squeeze money from incarcerated people & their loved ones
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/09...
Prison Banned Books Week: Books give incarcerated people access to the world, but tablets are often used to wall them off
Instead of taking advantage of their possibilities, the companies that got rich off prison phone calls offer limited book selections on tablets, as part of ...
www.prisonpolicy.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Access to media and communication with loved ones are vital to the well-being of incarcerated people; and as carceral facilities rely more and more on tablets for those things, it's vital that they remain accessible and affordable.
Gender-affirming care is basic, necessary healthcare; to deny it within prisons and jails is both a violation of both the 8th Amendment and basic human decency.
NEW: A trans woman incarcerated in a New Jersey men’s prison severely mutilated herself after waiting years for gender-affirming surgery.
She's one of several incarcerated trans women in recent years to result to self-harm or mutilation.
She's one of several incarcerated trans women in recent years to result to self-harm or mutilation.
Incarcerated trans women self-mutilate for gender-affirming surgery
Incarcerated trans women in New Jersey have been pushed to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care
prismreports.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Gender-affirming care is basic, necessary healthcare; to deny it within prisons and jails is both a violation of both the 8th Amendment and basic human decency.
This is horrific and indefensible. To forcibly deny incarcerated people life-saving medical care while subjecting them to cruel and outdated “therapies” is beyond unconscionable.
The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
December 10, 2024 at 5:22 PM
This is horrific and indefensible. To forcibly deny incarcerated people life-saving medical care while subjecting them to cruel and outdated “therapies” is beyond unconscionable.
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Most women in jail are mothers, so this has devastating ripple effects on families
These women must leave their children & are impacted by the brutal side effects of going to jail: aggravation of mental health problems, greater risk of suicide & higher likelihood of homelessness
These women must leave their children & are impacted by the brutal side effects of going to jail: aggravation of mental health problems, greater risk of suicide & higher likelihood of homelessness
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Most women in jail are mothers, so this has devastating ripple effects on families
These women must leave their children & are impacted by the brutal side effects of going to jail: aggravation of mental health problems, greater risk of suicide & higher likelihood of homelessness
These women must leave their children & are impacted by the brutal side effects of going to jail: aggravation of mental health problems, greater risk of suicide & higher likelihood of homelessness
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Women are funneled into jail
While there's not a significant difference between men & women in terms of multiple jail admissions, we do know that the number is growing for women: From 2021-2022, the number of women in jail increased 9% while the number of men increased 3%
While there's not a significant difference between men & women in terms of multiple jail admissions, we do know that the number is growing for women: From 2021-2022, the number of women in jail increased 9% while the number of men increased 3%
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Women are funneled into jail
While there's not a significant difference between men & women in terms of multiple jail admissions, we do know that the number is growing for women: From 2021-2022, the number of women in jail increased 9% while the number of men increased 3%
While there's not a significant difference between men & women in terms of multiple jail admissions, we do know that the number is growing for women: From 2021-2022, the number of women in jail increased 9% while the number of men increased 3%
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NEW: Biden is facing calls to grant clemency to women who were sexually abused by prison guards + remain incarcerated
“If he can pardon his son, he can definitely grant clemency to survivors of this heinous abuse by federal government employees,” one survivor told me
20+ cases sitting on his desk:
“If he can pardon his son, he can definitely grant clemency to survivors of this heinous abuse by federal government employees,” one survivor told me
20+ cases sitting on his desk:
US shuts down prisons amid scrutiny over sexual abuse and crisis of suicides
Bureau of Prisons closes California facility and suspends operations at six others as rights activists call for clemency
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
NEW: Biden is facing calls to grant clemency to women who were sexually abused by prison guards + remain incarcerated
“If he can pardon his son, he can definitely grant clemency to survivors of this heinous abuse by federal government employees,” one survivor told me
20+ cases sitting on his desk:
“If he can pardon his son, he can definitely grant clemency to survivors of this heinous abuse by federal government employees,” one survivor told me
20+ cases sitting on his desk:
Today we're at the National Association of Public Defenders Women's Conference. I'm not going to livepost--I want to make sure I can pay attention--but I'll post major takeaways from sessions as we go. -Jay
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Today we're at the National Association of Public Defenders Women's Conference. I'm not going to livepost--I want to make sure I can pay attention--but I'll post major takeaways from sessions as we go. -Jay
Black girls face complex intersectional biases in the criminal legal system. Adultification means that Black girls are more likely to be denied developmentally appropriate support and receive harsher sentences and are less likely to be believed about trauma and abuse.
#ProtectBlackGirls
#ProtectBlackGirls
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Black girls face complex intersectional biases in the criminal legal system. Adultification means that Black girls are more likely to be denied developmentally appropriate support and receive harsher sentences and are less likely to be believed about trauma and abuse.
#ProtectBlackGirls
#ProtectBlackGirls