Is this the #CaliforniaModel? Heat deaths. Constant violence. ENOUGH. Incarcerated people are dying while @CAgovernor @gavinnewsom sweeps #homeless encampments and spends $240 million on monuments to himself in #SanQuentin.
On 8/19, there's a protest at #CCWF demanding an end to this brutality. Instead of investing in communities, Newsom is ignoring calls to #CloseCAPrisons, criminalizing people, and stealing the belongings of the unhoused.
‘Help us, we can’t breathe’: Inmate at California women’s prison dies during heat wave
A woman incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla died Saturday during a statewide heat wave and prisoner advocates are blaming her death on heat exhaustion.
(8 July 2024)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/help-us-inmate-california-women-s-prison-19561544.php
#prison #heatwave #cruelandunusual #CCWF #womenprisoners #prisondeaths
State's largest women's prison must be held accountable for abuse
By Lilli Paratore, Special to the Sacramento Bee
If the reports emerging from the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) about rampant sexual violence and abuses of power were being reported from anywhere else, there would be outrage across the state. But because these survivors are locked inside California’s largest women’s prison, no one seems to care.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article272572946.html?mc_cid=0fe7b3600a&mc_eid=624f03d94f
Blue Ridge ABC
Prisonwatch