Announcing New Series “Imprisoned: Women Behind Bars”
Written by Julia Hing, a WoLF Member and Volunteer
In this new blog series, Imprisoned: Women Behind Bars, we explore the multitude of challenges confronting incarcerated women in the United States — including the socioeconomic factors driving arrest and detainment, the disparity in sentencing, the devastating effects of family separation, lack of healthcare, sexual abuse behind bars, recidivism, reintegration into civilian life, and more.
Julia Hing, WoLF member and volunteer, is a writer specializing in women’s issues and the criminal justice system. She has an MSc in Criminal Justice and lives in New York. WoLF is grateful to Julia for her efforts to expose the systemic abuse of incarcerated women.
“I was sentenced and put in prison for choices I made — not to be raped and abused.”
To learn more about WoLF’s litigation efforts to protect incarcerated women, read about WoLF’s Chandler v. CDCR lawsuit, hear from one of WoLF’s plaintiffs, and learn how male inmates are traumatizing female prisoners.
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Advocates for the rights of incarcerated women cheered when President Trump signed Executive Order 14168, reversing a wide range of federal policies that elevate gender identity over sex, including in prisons. So why are men still in women’s prisons?
WoLF volunteer Julia Hing spoke with Amie Ichikawa, one of the founders of Women II Women, a support group for incarcerated women. Amie served five years in Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and has first-hand knowledge of what goes on inside women’s prison. Along with her organization, Amie works with lawmakers, the media, and within the criminal justice system to bring awareness to the public of the plight of incarcerated women.
It was a failure for the legislature to have passed this statute, and for implementation of it to have begun, without meaningful engagement with incarcerated women and their representatives.
Two courts issued temporary restraining orders preventing the transfer of male prisoners who identify as transgender women to male prisons. More will follow.
On December 16th, California District Attorney Eric DuTemple was ordered by a California court to refer to Tremaine Carroll, accused of raping two women, by his preferred pronouns of “she/her”.
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CA District Attorney DuTemple might become the first criminal prosecutor to be forced to refer to a convicted male rapist using opposite-sex pronouns in court. The motion may also force witnesses and victims of the man to refer to him as “she” and “her.”
WoLF has taken the next steps in our groundbreaking legal battle to get men out of California women’s prisons. The case, Chandler v. Macomber (formerly Chander v. CDCR), centers on six women incarcerated in California who have all faced harm by being forced to live, work, and share private, intimate spaces with men who claim to be women.
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The ACLU’s latest intervention in WoLF’s California prison lawsuit shows just how little they care about women’s safety, dignity, and rights
