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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 16 - December 2000

< Dedication
 
< Reality in the SHU
 
< $350,000 Award to Sherrie Chapman
 
< Victory in the Battle Against the Board of Prison Terms
 
< Legal Corner: Close the SHU!
 
< Editorial: Cruel and Inhuman: Shut the SHU Down!
 
< Legislative Hearings: Speaking Truth to Power
 
< Legislative Hearings: Women Prisoners Tell It Like It Is
 
< Legislative Hearings: Battered Women Speak
 
< Haiku from Writers Workshop
 
< Battered Women Get Parole Release
 
< Prison
 
< Theresa Cruz Denied Parole
 
< New organization to help women prisoners
 
< Sara Jane Olson - Targeted by the Los Angeles Police
 
       

New organization to help women prisoners

by Diana Block

Justice Now is a new Oakland-based organization that provides direct legal services to women prisoners in California state prisons. The Co-Directors of Justice Now are Cynthia Chandler, formerly the director of Women's PLAN, and Cassandra Shaylor, formerly a staff attorney with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Justice Now trains law students to assist women prisoners with medical advocacy, compassionate release, alternative sentencing and child custody matters. Through this work we hope to greatly increase the services available to women inside. We will be moving to a new location soon, and we will take new clients beginning in January.

Last updated August 19, 2003 11:10 AM


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