Budget Cuts to End Watsonville Women's Recovery Program
WATSONVILLE, Calif. - For a quarter of a century, Watsonville' s Hermanas Residential Recovery program has been the only place in south Santa Cruz County designated for women to treat drug addiction.
There have been a number of excellent books written in recent years regarding the United States’ prison system (Christian Parenti’s Lockdown America and Sasha Abramsky’s Hard Time Blues come to mind). Resistance Behind Bars is different because it is self-consciously written from an activist standpoint.
Using Media to Connect People Inside and Out
(Sunday, July 19th, 10 to 11:30 am)
What are the concrete barriers to the flow of information across prison walls? How can they be overcome? This panel will address the physical, technological and intellectual barriers of media access to and from prisons.
Victoria Law will address the increasing challenges of getting independent media coverage *inside* prisons.
We will gather to listen to some of her words and talk about the realities of women's lives locked within the United States prison system. At this time there are 2.4 million people in prison with Black women being the fastest growing popula- tion getting locked up. We must learn about the strategies of resistance women have been using for years. The lessons from the past can shape our work for the future.
We are hoping to help secure the release of another survivor Carol Sue McInnis. Please take a moment to send a free fax to Governor Schwarzenegger at http://www.freebatteredwomen.org/Alert_Carol_Sue.html urging him to release incarcerated domestic violence survivor Carol Sue McInnis.
Carol Sue McInnis a 70-year-old battered woman who has served nearly 20 years on a 15-to-life sentence for the death of her abusive and manipulative husband.
The Women's Prison Association conducted a study of prison nursery programs and mother-baby community corrections programs, finding:
Many women parenting their infants in prison nurseries could be doing so in the community instead, the report finds.
Dear friends:
It is with great pleasure that we announce that another domestic violence survivor will be released on parole from state prison!
Many of you know Myrtle Green, a 77-year-old woman who has been a leader at the California Institution for Women during her 21 years of incarceration. Myrtle will be released this week, after the Board of Parole Hearings *finally *upheld her 2005 parole grant after reviewing it again last week.
Myrtle's freedom is the result of the hard work of many people who