Criminal Justice Reform and Gender Justice Advocate Amika Mota Named Executive Director of Sister Warriors

SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Sister Warriors, a membership organization led by formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted women and trans people of all genders, today announced that Amika Mota has been named executive director. The move is part of a broader effort to establish an ecosystem of organizations working in concert to end the incarceration and criminalization of girls, women, and trans people of all genders and gender expansive people.

Sister Warriors Action Fund Launches with First Electoral Endorsement

In their first electoral action, the Sister Warriors Action Fund has endorsed Tamisha Torres-Walker’s reelection campaign for Antioch City Council. The organization also hosted the California Legislative Women's Caucus for a press conference on Prop 1 this morning.

Protestors Gather Outside Avenal State Prison as Coronavirus Spreads to 700+ There

AVENAL, Calif. (FOX26) — Protestors gathered outside Avenal State Prison Saturday, trying to bring attention to a coronavirus outbreak there that has spread to more than 700 people.

Op-Ed: Miss a traffic ticket deadline, add $300. Guess who this affects the most?

Here’s something you might find surprising. Despite two years of pandemic-related anxieties, California is now so awash in money that politicians in Sacramento are debating how to spend tens of billions of surplus dollars.

California Assembly advances involuntary servitude amendment

California is the latest state trying to remove “involuntary servitude” as a constitutionally protected form of punishment, a move aimed at formally severing the remnants of slavery from the law.

Senator Josh Becker Introduces Bill to Make Telecom Free for Incarcerated People Connecting with Their Families

The Keep Families Connected Act eliminates fees that help fuel a $1.4 billion prison telecom industry in the US and drive more than 1 in 3 families into debt.

California gives people leaving prison just $200 to start over. After 50 years, that could change

A California lawmaker wants to increase the allowance that people released from prison receive to cover basic needs for the first time in nearly 50 years.

Social Action Campaign for 'Just Mercy' Evolves Into Criminal Justice Organization

When the film Just Mercy came out late last year — it stars Michael B. Jordan as civil-rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson working to free a wrongly convicted death row prisoner — the team behind it launched what many movies that tackle pressing issues do these days.

Prison Deaths from COVID-19: How Many Staff, Inmates Have Died in the Fresno Region?.

Up and down California, the state’s prison system has provided the novel coronavirus with a captive population in which to spread during the pandemic.

California Institution for Women, Central California Women's Facility Confirm First COVID-19 Cases

California Coalition for Women Prisoners joins with Young Women’s Freedom Center and the Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition to demand action in response to the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff at the California Institution for Women and the Central California Women’s Facility.

Opinion: It's Time to End Late-Night Releases from California County Jails.