The Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC) is a committee of incarcerated trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGNCI) individuals who seek to share their voices with those on the outside about the injustices they have faced both in and out of prison. PAC began from a proposal by former SRLP staff member Gabriel […]
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so, we created this space to share the activities and stories of our Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC).
Meet Some of Our Wonderful Prisoner Advisory Committee Members!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on November 1, 2017 in It’s War in Here, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
In honor of our relaunch of “It’s War in Here,” a report on the experiences of trans and gender non-conforming people incarcerated in New York State, we reached out to several Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC) members who have offered their guidance and voices to the project. We wanted all of our readers to get to […]
10 Years Later: SRLP Updates “It’s War in Here”
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on September 1, 2017 in It’s War in Here, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, Publications and Resources, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
In 2007, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project published a report which changed the landscape for LGBT organizing and abolitionist work in the US. It’s War in Here, a report on the conditions that transgender women face in men’s prisons, forced LGBT activist organizations to take the issues of policing and prisons seriously and forced abolitionists […]
Building Together Towards Liberation: Tools & Resources for Resistance
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on May 15, 2017 in News, Prisoner Rights Project, Publications and Resources, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
I believe that we will win. I believe that we will continue to resist. We say it loud. We say it in whispers. We say it in the way we shout trans liberation in the streets. We say it in the way we move. We say it in the way we practice hope. We say it […]
A New Resource for Incarcerated Trans, Gender Non-Conforming, and Intersex New Yorkers
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on May 4, 2017 in Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project, Publications and Resources, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
The Prisoner Justice Project is extremely excited to announce the launch of our new resource, Name Changes for Transgender Adults in New York State Prisons: A DIY Guide for Pro Se Name Changes. This guide walks incarcerated transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex individuals through the name change process if they are 18 years old or […]
SRLP Seeks to HALT Isolated Confinement in New York State Prisons
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 30, 2017 in Action Alert, Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
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 […]
Order Your 2017 SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee Calendar!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on January 20, 2017 in Publications and Resources, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Order your 2017 calendar today! SRLP’s beautiful 12-month calendar showcases the artwork of SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee members who are locked away in New York state detention facilities. Even while existing under some of the most violent and isolating conditions, our PAC members continue to find ways to survive, resist, and break down physical barriers created to […]
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 […]
SRLP speaks to the Board of Correction about implementing meaningful PREA standards
May 10 was a big day for advocacy to end sexual violence in New York City jails. Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) members and staff spent the morning at the Board of Correction’s public meeting, where punitive segregation for young people, harassment during visitations, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) were discussed. After the […]
SRLP spoke up against solitary confinement and limitation on visitation rules at BOC hearing
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on October 18, 2015 in Everyday Abolition, Legal, Membership, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP In The Media, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
On Friday, October 16, SRLP staff and members, including India, Natalia, Olympia and Xena, along with our allies such as the Jails Action Coalition, attended a Board of Corrections hearing to speak up against the Department of Correction’s attempt to increase the use of solitary confinement to over 30 days and its attempt to curtail visitation […]