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Tags: Akron Ohio • Alisha Murdock • All of Us or None • alternative custody programs • basic human rights • Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir • Black Panther Party • Black woman • Brown v. Plata • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation • California Prison Moratorium Project • California’s Central Valley • California’s state prisons • Catholic Charities • CCWP • CCWP newsletter • CDC number • CDCR • Central California Women’s Facility • Central Valley prisons • Cerrita Wilson • Charisse Shumate • Chowchilla • Chowchilla Freedom Rally • compassionate release for the terminally ill • constitutional rights • constitutional violation • correctional officers • Critical Resistance • Death row inmate • Debbie Reyes • domestic violence • Dream Team • equality and justice • execution rituals • Freedom Rally • Fresno Brown Berets • Global Women's Strike • Hafsa Al Amin • health care rights advocate • imprisoned women • incarcerated daughters • incarcerated mothers • incarcerated sisters • incarcerated wives • Iya Sojourner Truth • Judy Greenspan • Julio Marquez • Kevin Cooper • Leslie Mendoza • Level 3 and 4 women’s facility in California • Liberation Brass Orchestra • life sentences • Life Without the Possibility of Parole • Manuel La Fontaine • March on Washington • medical abuse • medical neglect • Melvin Dickson • mental and physical health of prisoners • misogynistic policy decision • Mumia Abu Jamal • murdered by the state • Occupy 4 Prisoners • Oday Guerro • overcrowded prisons • overcrowding • parole for elderly people • Peace Keepers • Peoples Community Medics • Primero de Mayo Comite • prison dungeons • prison industrial complex • Project What! • Ralph Avitia • Samantha Rogers • San Quentin • Sister-to-Sister Visiting Team • solidarity statements • Stanley Tookie Williams • Thao Ngyuen • The Fire Inside • Tulare County • U.S. Supreme Court • Valley State Prison • Valley State Prison for Women • VSPW • Wanda Sabir • white constituency • Women’s Convention • women’s equal rights • youth advocates • Youth Justice Coalition • “Ain’t I a Woman” • “Thao and the Get Down Stay Down”

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Filed Under: Prison Stories
Tags: ACP • Adrienne Roberts • Alicia Walters • All of Us or None • Alternative Custody Program • alternative custody programs • Angela Davis • Asian Pacific Islander Support Committee • Bay Area residents • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation • California Prison Focus • California Prison Moratorium Project • California prisons • California women's prison • Californians • Californians United for a Responsible Budget • Campaign to End the Death Penalty • CAPIC • CCWF • CDCR • Central California Women’s Facility • Central Valley • Central Valley prisons • Chowchilla • Chowchilla Freedom Rally • Chowchilla Freedom Rally Coalition • Chuco’s Justice Center • civil and human rights violation • Communities Against the Prison Industrial Complex • compassionate release • corrections costs • Critical Resistance • Debbie Reyes • early parole • Fired Up! • Folsom Prison • Folsom Women’s Facility • gender discrimination • Global Women's Strike • Global Women’s Strike in London • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger • Holloway Prison • incarceration rates • Justice Now • Krys Shelley • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Los Angeles • MacArthur BART • medical parole • Mumia Abu Jamal • Oakland • Occupy 4 Prisoners • Pennsylvania • prison abolitionist • prison population • Prison Radio broadcast • prisoner advocacy organizations • Proposition 36 • protest women’s prison • Roger White • Samantha Rogers • sentencing reform measures • Solidarity actions • State Correctional Institute Mahanoy • The Hold Out’s community room • Theresa Martinez • three strikers • Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project • U.K.’s women’s prisons • US PROStitutes Collective • Valley State Prison for Women • VSPW • Women’s Policy Institute • Youth Justice Coalition

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Filed Under: Prison Stories
Tags: "Brown challenges court oversight of California prisons” • 2012 Budget Act • Bakersfield Californian • Banning-Beaumont Patch • Brown administration • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • Californians for Safety and Justice • Californians United for a Responsible Budget • California’s higher education system • California’s prison system • California’s Three Strikes Law • CBS SF Bay Area • CCWF • CDCR • Central California Women’s Facility • Central Valley Women’s Facility • corrections budget • crime prevention • Diana Zuñiga • drug sentencing laws • Education advocates • Emily Harris • federal court order • former Gov. George Deukmejian • Fresno Bee • funding for education system • funding for social services • General Fund increase • good time credits • Gov. Brown • Governor Jerry Brown • Hafsah Al-Amin • Huffington Post • increase public safety • increasing jail population • Judge Thelton Henderson • KQED blog • Los Angeles Times • media access bill • Motion to Vacate or Modify Population Reduction Order • Oakland Tribune/Bay Area News Group • older prisoner release program • Orange County Register • overcrowding in California’s prison • parole and sentencing reform measures • permanently medically incapacitated prisoners • poor medical and mental health care in California’s prisons • prison population • prison spending • Prop 36 • Proposition 36 • Raquel Morales • reduce corrections costs • reduce incarceration rates • reduce the prison population • Sacramento Bee • Salon • San Diego Union Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • San Jose Mercury • San Mateo Daily Journal • terminally ill prisoners • U.S. Supreme Court • unconstitutional prison overcrowding • University of California Student’s Association • Valley State Prison • Valley State Prison for Men • VSPW • Washington Post • “Brown challenges court oversight of Calif. prisons” • “Brown challenges court oversight of state prisons” • “Brown fails to produce prison plan seeks end of court control” • “California challenges feds’ inmate population cap” • “California Prison Population: Jerry Brown Challenges Inmate Cap” • “Gov. Brown Fights Federal Order on California Prison Population Cap” • “Gov. Brown Moves to End Cap on Prison Population” • “Governor argues California prisons should be removed from court orders to shed inmates” • “Governor asking court to remove prison limits” • “Governor: Releasing more California inmates to meet court order will free violent felons early” • “Jerry Brown calls on feds to relinquish hold on state prisons” • “Jerry Brown says prison emergency over” • “State Challenges Federal Oversight of Prisons”