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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series 3.3 contains materials from the CWP’s campaign against solitary confinement and their work in support of the passage of the HALT Solitary (Humane Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement) bill in the New York State legislature. A significant majority of the digital materials in this sub-series come from the CWP’s process of drafting a report, Prison Within Prison: Voices of Women Held in Isolated Confinement in New York. These documents...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series 3.3 contains materials from the CWP’s campaign against solitary confinement and their work in support of the passage of the HALT Solitary (Humane Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement) bill in the New York State legislature. A significant majority of the digital materials in this sub-series come from the CWP’s process of drafting a report, Prison Within Prison: Voices of Women Held in Isolated Confinement in New York. These documents...

Scope and Contents From the Series: 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;...

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Sub-series 3.2 contains materials from the CWP’s 10 year campaign to pass the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act in the New York State legislature, increasing protections for criminalized survivors of domestic violence. Most materials in this sub-series document the final two years of the campaign in 2018 and 2019. A significant portion of documents in sub-series 3.2 are born-digital, though the subseries also contains a campaign banner and a folder of physical materials.