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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.