California Coalition for Women Prisoners

TOMORROW!!! 📣 There’s still time to register — please take a minute to RSVP so we have the proper headcount for food. Updated panelists listed here. Can’t wait to see ya’ll.

BAY AREA, ALL OUT FRIDAY! 📢🕯️Join us and spread the word. We are still fighting for accountability and to prevent this horrific abuse in the future.

It’s been a year since we secured a historic legal victory over the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) with the leadership and organizing of courageous FCI Dublin survivors. For the first time in BOP history, a Consent Decree was put in place to ensure unprecedented oversight and enforceable protections for hundreds of people incarcerated in federal women’s prisons.

We’ve won a lot. We’ve struggled a lot. We’ve learned a lot. We continue to fight alongside people inside, to free survivors, and to block the potential reopening of the facility for ICE.

Join us Thursday 5/28 to learn more!

Some stories aren’t just spoken - they’re sewn. Join us for Reproductive Justice & CA Women’s Prisons, a panel and exhibit hosted by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and co-sponsoring organizations. Bear witness to a memorial quilt honoring survivors of forced sterilization inside CA women prisons, and hear directly from formerly incarcerated advocates on the issues, movements, and bills pushing for change right now. Please register at bit.ly/ccwp6226 (link in bio).

We are devastated by the loss of our sister Tamara Hinkle. 🦋🕯️🕊️ We will always remember your loving soul and your fierce advocacy. Please donate generously to support Tamara’s family and honor her legacy.

Space is limited! RSVP today using link in bio. 🌺

This event will host an art exhibit of the memorial quilts that honor survivors of forced sterilization inside the women’s prisons, share out the “Know Your Reproductive Rights in Prison” resource guide, and a panel discussion with formerly incarcerated people and advocates tackling reproductive injustice in women’s facilities. Our aim for this event is to not only center the experiences of incarcerated people, but uplift current legislative efforts that work to address ongoing harms of incarceration.

Light refreshments will be provided.

🗞️ 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.

Please join us for a panel conversation about this groundbreaking new resource and hear from contributors about the participatory research process with people inside and outside.

Know Your Reproductive Rights in Prison is an essential guide for people incarcerated in women’s prisons and a powerful tool for advocacy, empowerment, and resistance across prison walls. Created by people who are or have been incarcerated and their advocates, this booklet offers accessible information about patient rights and the laws that protect them. The booklet also covers how to ask questions, self-advocate, and make informed healthcare decisions while in prison. Proceeds from the sale of the booklet will support the distribution of free copies to incarcerated people inside California women’s prisons.