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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 25 - Summer 2003

< Dedication to Marilyn Buck
 
< Locked up - Locked down: A mother's love for her child
 
< Legal Corner: Your Right to Write
 
< Editorial: The Power of Writing
 
< Why Prisons Don't Work
 
< From Death Row-the Problem with Restitution
 
< Orange Alert
 
< Habeas bill extended
 
< The Great Physician
 
< More Deaths ar CCWF
 
< Charisse Song
 
< Charisse "Happy" Shumate at a conference!
 
< Solidarity
 
< Want to help?
 
< Native Women at CCWF without ability to practice
 
< Lifers
 
< It's Your Health: H. Pylori and Stomach Ulcers
 
       

Habeas bill extended

This month, Gov. Davis signed an extension to Penal Code § 1473.5, which allows survivors of domestic violence who were convicted of killing their batterers before 1992 to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus to challenge their imprisonment. The extension allows women extra time to file their petitions until 2010. This law gives incarcerated survivors who qualify a rare chance to have their convictions overturned and/or have their sentences reduced.
For more information about the Habeas Project, contact Free Battered Women at 1540 Market St., #490, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Last updated November 14, 2003 11:18 AM


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