Members of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project are getting ready to join thousands of New Yorkers in the push to end the use of isolated confinement in New York State prisons. On May 2, members of SRLP and the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) will be in Albany meeting with legislators and assemblymembers on […]
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What You Can Do To Bring TGNCI Prisoners Home
Chelsea Manning will be released from prison in 95 days, on May 17, 2017. For so many people who are allies and supporters of Chelsea, her release marks an important end to the trauma she underwent for the past three and a half years in a military prison that refused to recognize her basic humanity. […]
15 Systematic Policies and Legal Rules That SRLP Helped Change
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on December 20, 2016 in Birth Certificates, Identification, Immigrant Rights Project, Legal, News, Newsletter, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, Survival and Self Determination Project
It’s been almost 15 years since SRLP was founded as a multi-racial, trans-led collective organization working for economic, racial, and gender justice. You might not know that over the last 15 years SRLP has worked to win the following important victories: Morrill v. Morrill, establishing a transgender parent’s right to visit her children. Doe v. […]
New PREA Rules for the NYC Jails Fail to Provide Trans Women with Meaningful Housing
Last week, the Board of Correction, the body that oversees the Department of Correction and ensures compliance with the minimum standards, unanimously voted in new rules to govern and prevent instances of sexual violence in the NYC jails. This rule goes beyond the federal rules for the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and are, in […]
Voices Raised Against All Forms of Violence in the NYC Jails!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on November 13, 2016 in Action Alert, Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project
In what plans to be a very revealing open hearing this Monday, November 14, the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will hear reports on the implementation of the Nuñez settlement in the City jails. The case Nuñez v. City of New York et. al., is a class action lawsuit that challenged the use […]
Speak up against sexual violence at the Board of Corrections hearing
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on July 21, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Thank you to those who came out to the membership meeting on Tuesday at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project to prepare for Board of Correction (BOC) hearing! We were so grateful to be able to listen to everyone’s innovative suggestions for making NYC jails safer for trans, gender non-conforming and intersex (TGNCI) folks. If you weren’t able […]
Leaving Trans Women out of the Women and Criminal Justice System Convening
To mark the end of Women’s History Month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch issued remarks at the White House Women and the Criminal Justice System Convening Wednesday, March 30. Her remarks stand out for mentioning and specifically addressing transgender women caught inside the Criminal Justice System. Yet naming transgender women without inviting them to […]
SRLP Members Help HALT Solitary in NYS Prisons
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 8, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project
On any single day about 4,000 people are held in solitary confinement in New York State prisons. This is a fact that Marci, a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s Movement Building Team, knows all too well. Having survived solitary confinement herself, Marci is now joining a group of advocates on April 12 […]
Reducing Sexual Violence on the Road to Abolition
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on March 29, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Prisoner Rights Project
Next Monday, April 4, SRLP is thrilled to be joining survivors, loved ones of survivors and advocates in the beginning of a campaign to address sexual violence and sexual harassment in the NYC jails. Around this time last year SRLP, along with other allied organizations and New York City’s Public Advocate Letitia James, submitted […]
Trans Voices Raised At Public Hearing
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on October 23, 2015 in Everyday Abolition, Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News
Last Friday, members of the SRLP Movement Building Team and Prison Advisory Committee shared their stories and personal concerns regarding rules pending before the Board of Correction. Staff and members testified before the Board and spoke out at a rally before. SRLP staff is so honored to work with members who share their stories […]