Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)

🎉AB 1958 (), the Racial Justice Act 6.0, passed the Appropriations Committee and is on to the Assembly Floor!

Thank you to our co-sponsors and community who made this possible! ❤️‍🔥

✨Learn more about AB 1958 in the fact sheet linked in our bio & sign up for updates from our partners :

✊🏾Background on the Racial Justice Act/ Racial Justice Act 4 All: The California Racial Justice Act (RJA), first enacted in Assembly Bill 2542 (Kalra), extends civil rights in the courtroom to empower individuals to challenge racist conduct against them in their criminal court proceedings. With its successor, Assembly Bill 256 (Kalra), signed into law in 2022, everyone can use the RJA to challenge racism in their California state convictions or sentences. The passage of AB 1071 last year strengthens the RJA even further. Stay tuned for continued efforts to fully realize the RJA and support this AB 1958!

🔊 LEGACIES OF RESISTANCE IN CA PRISONS 
𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥-𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺.

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽California’s prisons have always been sites of resistance. This series traces how. We begin at CTF Soledad, where George Jackson organized, where people built programs without state support, and where imprisoned people continue to fight back.

In February 2026, the LAO issued a rare recommendation to close CTF Soledad, citing $379M in needed repairs, $150M in annual savings, and continued population declines. 

Every open prison has a story like this one. There is no “wrong” prison to close. But there IS a wrong way to do it.

📣Governor Newsom should announce another prison closure in the May budget revision. We call on to adopt a plan that:
1️⃣ Prioritizes the release of the over 19,000 elders in state prisons 
2️⃣ Addresses the harm incarcerated people experience during the transfer process
3️⃣ Utilizes community-based criteria in the closure selection process
4️⃣ Reinvests savings into community care & economic solutions for impacted towns
5️⃣ Demolishes or repurposes closed facilities for non-carceral use

⚡️Meeting the Moment with Bold Strategy ⚡️

Day 2 of CURB’s Face 2 Face 2026 featured Prison Industrial Complex target practice; wisdom from CURB members leading work on the local, state, and national levels; a deep dive into the good, bad & the ugly of corrections spending; a decarceral policy workshop; and strategy session.

Here are some key ways you can plug-in:

⚡️LA COUNTY - Come through on Wednesday, May 6th for a Rally and Resource Fair w/ and partners outside of thr Board of Supervisors building
⚡️Sign up for virtual actions:
⚡️ Demand a budget: bit.ly/budgetaction26

💬If your organization is interested in joining CURB, send us a DM! We would love to be in touch!

Onward ❤️

🗞️💥Must read timely op-ed by Jane Dorotick, long time member & CURB partner

📲 bit.ly/sacbeejaned

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🗞️ FRESH OFF THE PRESS: Read CCWP member Jane Dorotik’s op-ed in the Sacramento Bee. She explains the reality of prison conditions and elder parole — and what motivated her to help produce our new report, No Time to Wait: A Case for Releasing Elders From California Women’s Prisons.

🦋✨CURB Face 2 Face Recap, part 2!✨🦋

Following the Community Action, CURB featured a panel on Community Power, Resistance, and Collective Action. 🗣️We heard from speakers with , , , and .

💥Speakers shared analysis on the history of border & immigration enforcement, conditions & organizing with folks caged in immigrant detention, the ways that ICE is part of the Prison Industrial Complex & the ways this system will always be weaponized to harm our communities, the need to challenge binaries of “deserving vs underserving,” impacts of heightened criminalization, and what communities are doing to resist.

⚡️If you are interested in plugging in to rapid response, anti-ice, and anti-detention organizing here are some orgs to follow!
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Subscribe to CURB today to stay updated on actions, events, and resources from our coalition 📲 bit.ly/CURBsubscribe LINK IN BIO

📣✨CURB is seeking a Summer 2026 Intern to support the Close California Prisons Campaign and other CURB advocacy!✨📣

📲Please see the Internship Posting on CURB’s website (http://bit.ly/curbintern26) for more information about CURB, our internship program, qualifications, and application instructions. LINK IN BIO

CURB is committed to investing in the leadership of formerly incarcerated and system-impacted people. Formerly incarcerated people, people with incarcerated loved ones, Black people, people of Indigenous descent, people of color, and q***r and trans people are encouraged to apply and will be prioritized in the selection process.

We would love to welcome you to our team!💖

📣💥THIS Monday 4/20 @ 2:30PM we are mobilizing with our partners , and many more to demand accountability and freedom for survivors of CDCr staff abuse, additional prison closures, and investments in community-based services.

🗣️Let us know if you can make it in person: bit.ly/42026hearing
📲Submit written public comment here: bit.ly/budgetaction26

See you there 💥❤️‍🔥