This statement was produced by A Living Chance: a storytelling project of California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), created with women and transgender people serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences. This statement reflects conversations with our partners inside prison whose voices are too often omitted from public discourse on measures that directly affect them. On(…)
Join Adrienne Skye Roberts and Mabel Negrete for a free, hands-on workshop to create websites for our incarcerated loved ones. Websites are a useful tool to communicate across the walls, connect imprisoned people to their communities outside, and support campaigns for their release. In this series of three 3 hours hands-on workshop, we will build creative(…)
Mary Elizabeth (Liz) Stroder is a participant of A Living Chance and member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. She is currently launching a campaign to support her application to Governor Brown for a commutation of sentence. Liz is a survivor of abuse and has spent 21 years in prison for a murder committed by her(…)
Kelly Savage is a domestic abuse survivor serving her 19th year of a Life Without Parole sentence for a crime committed by her abusive husband. Kelly is a collaborator of “A Living Chance: Storytelling to End Life Without Parole” and core organizer for California Coalition for Women Prisoners. In 1995, Kelly’s abusive husband killed her son Justin(…)