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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 23 - Winter 2002-03

< Dedication to Norma Jean Croy
 
< The Prisonification of Indian Women
 
< Legal Corner: The Indian Child Welfare Ace
 
< Editorial: Native Women Prisoners
 
< Standing Deer PRESENTE!
 
< Pa'lante: La Prisionificación de las Mujeres Indígenas
 
< Parole - A Distant Dream
 
< Inez Garcia, the Right to Self-Defense
 
< Welcome Home Marva Wallace and Susan Deering
 
< Four Winds: Interview with LaVonne Roach
 
< Sherrie Chapman PRESENTE!
 
< Honor Dance for the Four Winds
 
< Forms of Violence Against Native Women
 
< NO to Restitution Increase from 22% to 55%!!!
 
< Introducing Christina and Doris
 
< A Message. . .
 
< It's Your Health: Disabled in Prison
 
       

Welcome Home Marva Wallace and Susan Deering

In October 2002 Marva Wallace became the first prisoner released under the recently enacted habeas law, 1473.5 which enables battered women in California state prisons to seek retrials or reduced sentences if they were convicted prior to 1992. Davis had vetoed Wallace's parole two weeks before, but the courts ruled that she should be free after seventeen years in prison. Just before Christmas, survivor Susan Deering was released after twenty-two years with the help of the habeas project which offers legal assistance to survivors who are seeking redress under the new law. To contact the Habeas Project write FBW, 1540 Market St., #490, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Last updated August 16, 2003 08:23 PM


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