Coalition for Women Prisoners banner, 2000

Series 1 includes the internal organizational records of the Coalition for Women Prisoners. This series spans from the 1993 before the CWP’s inception—with documents from the hiring process of its first director, the first CWP meetings, and the establishment of the CWP’s founding vision and purpose—through to 2021 when the CWP sunsetted as an organization. These materials include documents such as meeting minutes; records from financial and strategic organizational planning processes; correspondence between CWP leaders, members, and collaborators; the notes, research, drafts, and feedback from various CWP projects and initiatives; personnel documents such as job descriptions, resignation letters, and hiring materials; materials from events hosted and sponsored by the CWP; and materials from the processes that culminated in the CWP’s decision to sunset the organization in June 2021, including the sunset announcements and final CWP gatherings. Series 1 contains both physical and born-digital materials; documents from the CWP’s earlier history are largely physical, and documents from more recent years are mostly in digital format.