Stanford Humanities Center
Join author Victoria Law, Kelly Savage (Drop LWOP/California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Woods Ervine (Critical Resistance) for a panel discussion about the horrors of the pandemic behind bars and grassroots freedom organizing.
About the Speakers
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author who has written about incarceration, particularly women's incarceration, for nearly two decades. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-authored with Maya Schenwar), and “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration. Her latest book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, is sadly still relevant.https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-corridors-of-contagion
Kelly Savage-Rodriguez is the DROP LWOP coordinator for the California Coalition For Women Prisoners. Kelly was incarcerated for 23 years. Governor Brown commuted her Life Without Parole sentence in December of 2017, and she was finally released on parole in November 2018. As a domestic violence survivor, Kelly was forced to experience the similarities between domestic violence and the violence of incarceration. She is also the executive chair of the Human Rights Watch National LWOP Leadership Council NLC. https://droplwop.com/
Woods Ervin is an organizer that has been working for over 15 years in movements both for trans self-determination as well as prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. She is currently Campaigns and Projects Co-Director at Critical Resistance (CR), a grassroots organization dedicated to building an international movement to abolish the prison-industrial complex, where she has been a member since 2010. https://criticalresistance.org/
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Stanford Humanities Center
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