Comic – American Prison Boots

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Statement from Climate Justice Coalition for California Prisons on AB 2499

On June 11th, the California Legislature chose to let Adrienne’s Act die. The original version of AB 2499, Adrienne’s Act, would have established mandatory climate safety standards in California’s correctional facilities. The bill was named after Adrienne Boulware, a 47-year-old woman who was killed by extreme heat inside the Central California Women’s Facility just months […]

The 14th Annual Quest for Democracy: Policy Platform

This year’s Q4D Policy Platform was built upon four pillars: release people from prison, restore full civil and human rights to system-impacted people, reunify families and communities, and relieve people from untenable conditions inside and out.Bills marked with a * are cosponsored by LSPC & AOUON. Release AB 1647*: The Juvenile Potential Protection Act (JPPA) […]

Popular Sovereignty and Colonialism (Jurisprudence for Jailhouse Lawyers, Part VIII)

by Eric C. Sapp, LSPC Senior Staff Attorney A quarter of a millennium after declaring independence, the U.S.A. remains a complex of opposites. A relatively strong democratic culture is combined with a political economy of plutocracy, the rule of wealth. Its legal order of formal equality is joined to material inequalities. The constitutional republic has […]

Legal Corner: Employment After Incarceration

by Sandra Johnson, Senior Racial Economic Justice Workers’ Advocate, Legal Aid at Work Hi, my name is Sandra Johnson. I write to you not only as a Worker’s Advocate with Legal Aid at Work, but also as a Black woman who spent many years incarcerated and who has been in recovery for a little more […]

Comic – American Prison Boots

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