The last week of May was busy! Not only did all three new summer legal interns start at SRLP, we also concluded our Participatory Research Nights as part of our republication of It’s War in Here. For background, in 2007, SRLP published It’s War in Here (IWIH), a report on the conditions that transgender and […]
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Meet The Artist behind Our Re-Launch of It’s War in Here
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on February 2, 2018 in It’s War in Here, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
I first met Rabi Cepeda in 2015. Over the past three years, Rabi and I have been able to meet, share food, and grow together. Rabi came home in the summer of 2017 and I have been able to meet with him a few times to make sure he stays connected to our work. Rabi’s […]
Meet the Advisory Committee for It’s War in Here!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on December 11, 2017 in It’s War in Here, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
As part of the relaunch of “It’s War in Here,” we asked some of our incarcerated members to join an Advisory Committee for the project. These members have helped us to generate questions and edit the surveys, and they will help us to review data and edit drafts of the report later on. They are […]
Celebrating the Prisoner Justice Project’s Accomplishments in 2017
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on December 4, 2017 in It’s War in Here, Legal, Newsletter, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
As with all of Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s (SRLP) legal work, the Prisoner Justice Project (PJP) seeks to address the immediate needs of our incarcerated community members and connect them with opportunities to engage more fully in our work. Most people initiate contact with PJP in a state of crisis, often reporting physical and sexual […]
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 […]
It’s War in Here
SRLP PUBLICATION A Report on the Treatment of Transgender and Intersex People in NYS Men’s Prisons ‘It’s War in Here’: A Report on the Treatment of Transgender and Intersex People in New York State Men’s Prisons, one of the first to address this issue, draws on interviews with imprisoned transgender people and their advocates to document […]