Advocacy Groups and Projects to Help Women in Prison
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The following links will take you to a variety of California groups that work to help women inmates. Some of the groups may be faith based, but please check them out. They offer invaluable assistance!
Prison Fellowship Ministries
A nationwide and international organization that partners with local churches to help prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. They have many resources available. They have published an excellent little book that is available online, titled
"Making It: A Prison Survival Guide"
. You may want to send this to your loved one in prison!
Kairos Outside
Kairos Outside is designed to support the families have had to deal with an incarcerated loved one. The spouses, parents and other relatives of the incarcerated often "do time" right along with their loved ones. It is important for them to know that they are not alone. This program does not require a specific religious affiliation, and I found it incredible.... editor
Barnard Center for Research on Women
The Scholar & Feminist Online, Issue 5.3, 2007
This is a wonderful online resource about women offenders, with materials taken from the 2006 Scholar and Feminist Conference:
Engendering Justice: Women, Prisons & Change.
It contains transcripts as well as video clips and audio of some panel discussions.
Dignity for Women Prisoners Campaign
This group has helped stop cross-gender pat searches and has worked on other important issues.
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Active in several womens' issues related to women in prison -- lots of good links, too!
Free Battered Women
A wonderful organization that helps abused inmates and battered women who have been accused of a crime directly related to the abuse they experienced.
California Habeas Project
Helping women lifers who were sentenced prior to 1992, before spousal abuse evidence could be presented.
Justice Now
This group works with women prisoners and local communities, and are involved with Chowchilla womens' prisons. They work on issues like compassionate release, healthcare access, and parental rights.
Action Committee for Women In Prison
Information about current activities at our womens' prisons -- Get On The Bus, Christmas projects, Battered Women in prison issues, medical issues, etc.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Pregnant prisoners' rights, re-entry advocacy, elderly prisoner issues, and impacts of incarceration on families. This group works on child protection and inmate rights issues.
Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
This site makes visible women's experiences in the criminal justice system. Documenting these stories is integral to this project of resistance. It follows lots of women in the California system.
This is a new page, so if you know of an organization that helps inmate women, please let me know! E-mail me at Additions to Women's Page and we will greatfully add your information to this site!
