Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Thurs, October 11th, 7 pm

With updated facts and even MORE stories of organizing and resistance both in and beyond women's prisons, the new edition of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women is here! Laura Whitehorn, Tina Reynolds and Mercedes Smith have shared their personal stories of organizing and resistance both in and beyond their prison sentences for the second edition.

from Nation of Change:

Can Restorative Justice Stop the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Pipeline?

Lois Ahrens, the director of The Real Cost of Prisons Project, a national organization based in Northampton, working to end mass incarceration. In today's Daily Hampshire Gazette, she responds to the expansion of the Chicopee Jail:

NORTHAMPTON - In 2007, when Sheriff Michael Ashe of Hampden County opened his new jail for women in Chicopee, he apparently knew he would need 56 additional cells.

If you missed the panel on Prisoners and Formerly Incarcerated Persons v the USA at the 2012 Left Forum (which, once again, refuses to address childcare issues), you can now see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylqV_gsf9Vw&list=UUBQPwxltZTQsAwelboXl6CA...

Description:

I'll be speaking twice at this year's Law and Disorder conference!

All Events at Portland State University in Smith Memorial Building
1825 Southwest Broadway, Portland, OR 97201

Friday, April 6th, from 7:30pm-9:30pm (Vanport Room 338)

Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex: Towards a Queer, Trans and Feminist Abolition Politic

Friday, October 19, 2012, 7:00PM

Inquiring Minds Bookstore
6 Church Street

A Women's Prison Expands in Chicopee
Do women who commit minor offenses need more jail room--or less jailing?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
By Maureen Turner

courtesy of Human Rights Coalition-Fed Up!

PA County Jails Fail Legal Standards of Health Care for Women

In the first assessment of women's reproductive healthcare in jails across PA, the ACLU found that all 57 jails fail to meet minimum human rights standards of healthcare for women.

Last Saturday, Think Outside the Cage (KPFK) broadcast a pre-recorded interview with Jane Dorotik, an incarcerated woman, who created the "other" Alternative Custody Program (ACP) proposal which is supported by many prison reform groups and has been presented at various legislative hearings in California.

Governor Brown and the Legislative Analyst Office have both recommended that the ACP be expanded. Matthew Cate has stated CDCR plans to expand the ACP.

You can listen to it here: http://archive.kpfk.org/m3u.php?mp3fil=6974

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACTS: Emma Ketteringham
917-991-4943

March 14, 2012 Tamar Todd 510-593-4908