While incarcerated at CIW, Brittany Richardson saw extreme race and class bias. Was given opportunities not offered to others.
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At the California State Assembly Select Committee on Incarcerated Women with a powerhouse panel.pic.twitter.com/BGRzbcdiNE
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Sara Wilshinsky describes how people aren’t given resources to fairly defend themselves. Laws are complicated, not sure how to avoid more risk, public defense often too overworked to be available.
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Norma Cumpian was prosecutes bc she defended herself from an abusive husband. Prosecutor told jury to not give her manslaughter bc that’s for a MAN who was in a bar fight.
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Her child was 5 months old when she was forcibly separated from him through incarceration.
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April Grayson from
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Sentenced to 20 years in prison for a crime that men get 3 years for, and she was the victim. -April Grayson
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That’s why I fight the way I fight. Because if I don’t say it, nobody will. -April Grayson,
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Rojas from
@YoungWomenFree and @womenprisoners was targeted by guards in prison bc gender non-confirming. first write-up was for getting sunburned - the crime was “damage to state property”pic.twitter.com/O05sKXLwuK
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Ny Nourn from
@aaaj_alc and@survivepunish makes the trauma connections between being targeted as a Cambodian refugee and criminalized as a survivor of domestic violence.#survivedandpunishedNäytä tämä ketju -
California needs to stop collaborating with ICE. it’s hypocritical to spend thousands of dollars to incarcerate someone and then deport them to a country they don’t know. -Ny Nourn
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Ingrid Archie from
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Prosecutor pushed conviction of Ingrid Archie so it would be before prop 47 went into effect. Her fierce self advocacy got her out due to prop 47 anyway. Then she was hired as a prop 47 expert by
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