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Our Mission
CCWP is a grassroots racial justice organization that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women and communities of color by prisons and the criminal justice system. We are building a movement with women prisoners, family members of prisoners, and the larger communities through organizing, leadership development, and political education.
 CCWP works in coalition with other groups to bring about fundamental changes in the prison industrial complex. We want the abolition of a prison system whose goals are punishment, control, profit and the warehousing of human beings, the majority of whom are people of color and poor.
CCWP advocates for changes in intolerable conditions inside prisons such as grossly inadequate health care, rampant sexual abuse and security housing (solitary confinement) which amounts to torture. We work for the release of battered women and prisoners of the drug war and we fight for mother-infant programs and alternatives to incarceration. We support political prisoners (women who are in prison because of their political activities against injustice).
We seek to connect our work for women prisoners to the fight to end all forms of violence, discrimination, racism, humiliation and impoverishment of women. We work for a society where education rather than incarceration is the priority, where human rights is not an empty phrase but a reality for all people.
Last updated August 16, 2003 06:35 PM
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