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Letter to Rhea Mallett from members of the Shawangunk Lifers Committee; Shawangunk Lifers Committee policy proposal; addendum to Shawangunk Lifers Committee policy proposal

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"Domestic violence is a crime" promotion for Combat Zone domestic violence hotline; Combat Zone brochure with calendar of programming, events, and workshops; flyers for Rhea Mallett's lecture at Combat Zone, "Women who Struck Back Doing Time"; Rhea Mallett's notes from "Women who Struck Back Doing Time" talk

Scope and Contents "What is the Coalition for Women Prisoners?" document with attached policy proposals on the impact of mandatory sentencing laws on women offenders and the impact of Department of Corrections budget cuts on women prisoners; letters from incarcerated women at the Taconic Correctional Facility regarding Department of Corrections budget cuts; announcement of first annual CWP lobby day; Rhea Mallett's notes from speech to the Women's Prison Association; letter to Rhea Mallett from Catherine...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Sub-series 3.1 contains materials documenting the CWP's legislative advocacy work during Rhea Mallett's tenure as director from 1994-1996. Major areas of focus include preventing sexual assault in prisons and jails; improving access to reprodctive and gynecological healthcare for incarcerated people; challenging Governor George Pataki's sentencing reforms which increased prison sentences and abolished parole for violent offenders; repealing the Rockefeller drug laws and supporting "drug...

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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List of WIPP advisory council members; advisory council meeting agendas and notes; annotated CWP meeting agendas; correspondence with Paul Samuels (director of Legal Action Center); draft position paper; order form for children's book about incarcerated parents

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Press release for first annual lobby day; women in prison fact sheet and annotated copy; CANY newsletter; "top ten victories of WIPP from March '95 to January '96" document; "top accomplishments of the Coalition for Women Prisoners" document; list of CWP speaking engagements and interviews

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Slides from presentation on "duty of confidentiality and client fraud" featuring Rhea Mallett; flyers, notes, and brochure from event "A Look at the Changing Prison Population" at Fordham Law School

Scope and Contents Poem by Judith Clark; research article "Love Them and Leave Them: Paradox, Conflict, and Ambivalence among Incarcerated Mothers" by Judith Clark; "Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System: Five Years Later" report by the Sentencing Project; Prison Law Project Legal Journal edition, "Women's Issues are Everyone's Issues" with articles by Laura Whitehorn and Marilyn Buck, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and others; Prison Life...