The National Council for Incarcerated

COYOTE RI is excited to be joining our sisters at The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, who are committed to abolishing incarceration for women and girls. Bella Robinson, executive director of COYOTE RI was selected to be one of the 2022 FreeHer Fellowship Facilitators.

In solidarity with the National Council, we have dedicated this page to highlight this work and to help educate the public on these issues. We will be archiving tons of training materials as well as “In The News” to help with movement building. RI 3 Pager- Steps to closing jails_prisons

The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls Newsletter Feb 2022

Rapid Response and Legal Support Survey [link]

Fully Informed Jury Association link. Take the quiz link

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TOOLKITS, RESOURCES, AND SLIDESHOW TRAINING

Primary Caretakers Toolkit link
Illinois Alliance for Reentry & Justice 2022 Guidelines link
AbolitionistTools link
Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM) link
Navigating Public
Transcription app [link]
Story Telling Tool kit link
Electronic monitoring campaign toolkit. link
Entering A Community Handout
Six Seconds Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions link
LA Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group- Report
Entering A Community Template 2016
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THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT )1977)
Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery link
EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (Version 2.0) link
THE REVOLUTION STARTS AT HOME-taking risks-implementing grassroots community accountability strategies.
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The 50 Most Influential Think Tanks in the United States link
www.naturalreaders.com/online/ is a website that allows you to upload PDFs to it and it will read them to you for free.
WHAT ARE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND WHY DO THEY MATTER? link
Legislative Tracker: Anti-Transgender Legislation link
Collective Action DC link
Black Out Collective-Oakland link
Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation Tracker link
GLITS in NY l ink
Women on the Rise in GA link
Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences link
The Peoples Coalition For Safety and Freedom link
CASE TEXT- LEGAL RESOURCE link
Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps to end IMPRISONMENT link
Safety and Freedom link
PCSF VAWA Teach-In Resource Guide link
Parole Justice NY l ink
The Peoples Process- The 94 Crime Bill link
GETTING OFF RIGHT: A SAFETY MANUAL FOR INJECTION DRUG USERS link
Drug Decriminalization [e]Course link
On Serial Killers link
YWCA Resource List link
Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox- Resources for a Punishment-Free World link
Accountability Framework Facilitator Guide link
Fumbling Towards Repair A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators link
New Zine: What About “The Rapists?” link
Creative Interventions Tool Kit link
Equal Justice Initiative – EJI. link
EJI’s Racial Justice Teaching Tools Now on Flipgrid Discovery Library link
No New Women’s Prison tool kit link
Common Justice Guide link
Can Do Justice Through Clemency link
Freight Farms nonprofits link
EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (Version 2.0) link
Music, writing project gives Maine prisoners a voice link
Into to Political Theories for Abolitionists link
Incite- The Revolution will not Be Funded Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex link
FREE Anti Racism Workshops link
How to Slay a Dragon- Shutting Down Prisons, Jails, Juvies, and Winning “Unwinnable” Campaigns [link]
New National and State-Level Estimates of the Judicial and Legal Costs of Crime to Taxpayers link
Global Sister Z Media link
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RESEARCH- 3 pager [link]

WHY WE DON’T NEED A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON – Suffolk University link

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TRAINING WEBINARS FOLDER link

Reading Folder link

“Structure of Legal System link

Re: Power Training 1 link

Re: Power Training 2 link

REPOWERED Film link

Voices From the Frontlines: What Organizers Need in 2022 link

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VIDEOS & PODCASTS

Stop Building Prisons w/ Sashi James, Maggie Luna, Avalon Betts-Gaston link
The M&Ms are not Hot Anymore: Somehow, a serious video about the evils of colonialism. link
Charisse Shumate: “Fighting for Our Lives” Video link
The Role of Gender and Poverty In Incarceration link
Movie Attica link
Laura Whitehorn, “The Impacts of the Prison Industrial Complex” link
Episode 60: Capital with Angela Davis link
Profile the Davis Museum exhibition, “Prison Nation. link
JVP-NYC in conversation with former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn link
The Origin of Race in the USA link
Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans? link
Capitalism Hits the Fan: Richard Wolff link
The Drum Major Instinct by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. link
Why Doesn’t the US Have Paid Parental Leave? link
Why Are Prescription Drugs So Expensive? link
‘Unashamedly Marxist’ founder of BLM resigns link
Angela Davis & BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza in Conversation across Generations link
13TH – FULL FEATURE link
Understanding E-Carceration: A Book Launch link
Prison Labor: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [link
Abolition. Feminism. Now. [link
Van Jones: “We Will Not Live On A National Plantation Run By The Koch Brothers” 2011 link
The Century of the Self- YouTube link
The Century of Self – Vimeo link
Black History & The Future of Justice link
Paranoid Civilian Podcast link
Automating Banishment: The Data-Driven Policing of Stolen Land link
How the US STOLE Hawaii link
Don’t Talk to the Police [link
Protect the Beast, Amazon, Apple TV and iTunes link
Momentum Webinar Series: link
Women Abused Behind Bars link
Joe Biden in 1993 speech warned of ‘predators on our streets’ link
Aaron Briggs and the HMS Gaspee link
How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights- link
Compton’s Cafeteria Riot link
Carceral Cycles of Harm: A Teach-In on The Violence Against Women Act link
The Peoples Process link
Cameron Bell podcast link
People’s Coalition for Safety and Freedom Videos link
Undoing Drugs link
Chasing the Scream link
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts link
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear link
Heaven: Can You Hear Me? link
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society link
Torn Apart How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World link
Building Accountable Communities Video Series link
Congratulations to COYOTERIs’ research director Tara Burns who’ research “People In Alaska’s Sex Trade: Their Lived Experiences and Policy Recommendations” was covered on the Last Week Tonight by John Oliver show. link
Implicit Bias | Concepts Unwrapped link
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror link
One Voice Closing Rikers link
Why did Haiti agree to pay reparations to France after the Haitian Revolution? link
The San People: Oldest DNA On The Planet! link
Tuskegee Syphilis Study l ink
Kwame Ture – The Principle of Capitalism link
Angela Davis video link
POLITICAL THEORY – Karl Marx link
Assata Shakur on Socialism link
Marilyn Buck (One of Assata Shakur’s Liberators) link
Interrupting Criminalization link
EZLN – Our Word is our Weapon Comandante MArcos video link
Chris Hayes Podcast With Mariame Kaba | Why Is This Happening? link

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SUGGESTED READINGS- READING FOLDER [link]

Respectability Politics Strange Bedfellows- link
To advance research on incarceration, Brown acquires personal papers of prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal link
THE REBELLION AGAINST RACIAL CAPITALISM link
Probation Profiteers In Georgia’s outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole. link
Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System link
Rebellious Mourning- The Collective Work of Grief link
Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money link
A Company That Designs Jails is Spying On Activists Who Oppose Them link
Improving Health Equity for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System link
The Mark of a Criminal Record link
The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor link
What will future generations condemn us for? l ink
As Private Prisons Surge Under Trump, Koch Brothers Launch Prison Reform Initiative link
How the Koch Brothers Helped Bring About the Law That Shut Texas Abortion Clinics link
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded- Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. link
Koch’s Criminal Justice Agenda: Protect White-collar Criminals and Expand the Prison Industrial Complex link
The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet; Sex, money, and the future of online free speech link May 2022
Pantry – Alternatives to Koch Industries Consumer Products link
If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World link
No More Koch Case link
Charles Koch funded eviction push while investing in real estate companies link
Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money link
Jeff Bezos’ $100 Million Award to Van Jones was a Slimy PR Move link
Dark Money- Jane Mayer link
As Private Prisons Surge Under Trump, Koch Brothers Launch Prison Reform Initiative link
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants link
More on Koch Brothers on Democracy now archives link
First Step Act brings home thousands of prisoners; A win for property rights- 2019 link
Deadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh link
Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention link
Queering Sexual Violence link
Articles on 1994 Crime Bill link
Senators Call for Critically Needed Transparency About CIA Bulk Collection; Documents Declassified at Wyden and Heinrich’s Request- link
Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation link
Tioni Theus, Human Trafficking, and Super Bowl LVI link
Beyond Survival book link
I Use ‘They’ Pronouns Because I’m Non-Binary link
Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Feminist AntiViolence Movement and the Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973-1986 link
Danielle Sered’s words re: Hamburger Stand from Until We Reckon link
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World link
States of Incarceration link
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements link
Revolutionary Books & Complimentary Texts: A Drop for Black liberation link
As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation link
Assata Shakur- Autobiography link
United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination link
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State” link
The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic link
Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary link
The Invasion Of Ukraine: Anarchist Interventions And Geopolitical Changes link
Anarchist Parenting link
NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 1 link
Understanding Christian Anarchism link
Christian Anarchism link
Viola Liuzzo’s story, “From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo” link
Abolitionist Futures link
The Rise of Black Counter-Insurgency link
Madeleine Albright Was a Killer link
Green Criminology & Marxist Environmental Sociology link
Peoples Movement Assembly link
The People’s Budget link
Rethinking Incarceration link
Formerly Incarcerated Women in Tennessee Win Reforms Ending Shackled Births link
Beyond Punishment- A Miami Herald investigation of Lowell Correctional Institution link
The Terrible Origins of July 4th link
Let’s talk about the slavery that still exists in U.S. cotton ‘prison farms’ link
(1852) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “WHAT, TO THE SLAVE, IS THE FOURTH OF JULY” link
On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till is Murdered link
Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and A Great Loss (May 2022) link
The bizarre, complex history of America’s ‘most racist roadside attraction’ link

OPPRESSORS

The (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
CATO INSTITUTE EXPANSION AND RENOVATION link
The Heritage Foundation link
Koch Family wiki page link
Koch Industries link

SUPREME COURT RULINGS

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the relationship between campaign finance and free speech. It was argued in 2009 and decided in 2010. The court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.link]

State v. Rome :: 1994 :: Louisiana Supreme Court Decisions

Martinez Ramirez, “The court’s decision will leave many people who were convicted in violation of the Sixth Amendment to face incarceration or even execution without any meaningful chance to vindicate their right to counsel.”; SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR

ACLU, CRANSTON SETTLE MAJOR “SEARCH AND SEIZURE” CASE THAT WENT TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT [link] April 4th, 2022

Supreme Court Strikes Down N.Y. Concealed Carry Law—Could Lead To Rollbacks Nationwide link

Equity Challenge

Intersectionality 101 [link]
The urgency of intersectionality [link]
What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me? [link]
The intersectionality wars [link]

Policy Litigation and Legislation

Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI [link]
RI’s Bella Robinson fights to legalize prostitution, her profession at age 57 [link]
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN AND GIRLS SUPPORTS SEX WORKERS IN THEIR FIGHT TO RESTORE THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS link

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IN THE NEWS

Justice and the Developing Brain: Revisiting People Incarcerated as Youth link

Rhode Island spends too much to incarcerate too many people link

After the flat-footed response to a white supremacist march, questions about Boston police intelligence gathering link

Empty MCI-Framingham, close it forever, and never build another prison in Massachusetts link

Hillsborough detention deputy accused of trying to pay for sex with minor link

WILL A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION REVEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT DEATHS AT USP ATLANTA? link

Grand jury decides against charging white woman whose lies likely fueled Emmett Till’s lynching link

White nationalists increase attempts to recruit in New England- link

Proud Boys Aid the Right-Wing Assault on the LGBTQ Community and Reproductive Justice link

Moore v. Harper is a North Carolina case regarding the independent state legislature doctrine and gerrymandering. link

California governor pardons woman sentenced to life as a teen in 90s for fatally shooting abuser link

Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times. link

1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found family seeks arrest link

Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in, to become the first Black woman on Supreme Court. link

NH- Hearing held over hundreds of lawsuits alleging abuse at Youth Detention Center link

“1500+ people rally at Rhode Island State House against Supreme Court abortion reversal” link

5,000 Texas Republican delegates approved their party’s policy platform. The 40-page policy wishlist reads like a Fox News fever dream with parts pulled from a QAnon handbook link

Chicago police will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot link

Ninth Circuit Sets Tentative Date for Oral Arguments in Lacey/Larkin Case link

AOC Praises Hawaii for Having Zero Girls in Prison for First Time link

Why Juneteenth Is a Celebration for Everyone link

Queens man convicted of murdering NYPD detective shot by fellow officers link

A vigil for Charlene Liberty in the ongoing fight for change (Stop Torture RI) link

New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study link

Incarcerated LGBTQ+ Adults and Youth link

CUTTING INCARCERATED MOTHERS OFF FROM THEIR FAMILIES HURTS EVERYONE link

Longtime Missouri juvenile officer indicted on child sex trafficking charge link

Officer “John Doe” needs to reveal their identity to sue the state say advocacy groups- link

Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public link

Police Should Not Abuse Sex Workers, Media Should Not Publish Their Pictures During Raid & Rescue Operations: Supreme Court Issues Directions link

2-year investigation reveals ICE has data on most of the American public link

LaResse Harvey: The stigma of incarceration and helping Connecticut residents- link

Another transphobic law sponsored by Rep Lauren Boebert link

Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78 link

As more wrongful convictions unravel, exonerees help one another adjust to life beyond bar link

Inmate workers win a suit against Mills administration for seizing unemployment benefits link

Biden will commute or pardon the sentences of 78 non-violent people. Here are a few to know link

Almost a year on, new Boston police watchdog has processed only a few complaints of officer misconduct. Some advocates are disappointed. [link]

An interview with DARE organizer Anusha Alles on racism in the RI General Assembly [link] April 22nd, 2022

Business Tax on Freelance Writers Heads to Virginia Supreme Court [link]

Court-martial results in first conviction of general officer in Air Force history [link]

Florida inmate uses TikTok videos to expose prison issues [link]

Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia [link]

NBC 10 I-Team: Short-staffing leads to big overtime bills in Rhode Island prison system [link] April 19th, 2022

City Won’t Pay $6 Million Awarded to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades [link ]April 18th, 2022

Exclusive: HUD unveils plan to help people with a criminal record find a place to live [link] April 12th, 2022

Texas Judges Claim Jurisdiction Over Facebook Lawsuit Challenging Section 230 [link] April 13th, 2022

Supporters of prison construction moratorium plan rally Saturday in Framingham [link] April 8th, 2020

Pawtucket officer charged in teen’s shooting now accused of roughing up woman [link] April 5th, 2022

Rhode Island Senators Consider Two Paths To Decriminalizing Prostitution [link] April 2022

Is it time to legalize prostitution in RI? The arguments for and against [link]April 2022

He Spent 28 Years Behind Bars for a Murder He Didn’t Commit and Died Before Seeing Justice [link] March 2022

ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped. After fighting the case for years, the government has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by students who alleged they were collateral damage in the sting operation. [link]

‘Geofence Warrant’ for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional [link]

President Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime [link]

MA- The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting. [link]

IT’S A MONEY GRAB’: BILLIONS IN COVID RELIEF GOING TO FUND POLICE AND PRISONS- [link]

Belgium Decriminalizes Prostitution[link]

‘IT’S A MONEY GRAB’: BILLIONS IN COVID RELIEF GOING TO FUND POLICE AND PRISONS [link]

ACLU CALLS ON PROVIDENCE CITY COUNCIL TO REJECT INTRUSIVE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY [link]

FBI Will Publish Long-Delayed Police Use-of-Force Data [link]

“Brutalized with little recourse”: Colorado lawmakers take a first step to protect sex workers [link]

NYC jail guard arrested for allegedly lying in probe over loaded gun found in inmate’s cell [link]

New Hampshire released a statewide list of problem police officers. No such list exists in Massachusetts [link]

Maine man recorded by jail while on phone with lawyer won’t get new trial [link]

Governor McKee is preventing the release of paroled men convicted as juveniles because “it’s an election year” [link]

‘I can’t breathe’: Chilling video shows death of California man pinned down by cops [link]

Inmate advocacy group alleges Nebraska prison’s book policy is unconstitutional- [link]

How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America [link]

Selma to Montgomery march sheds light on voting rights push [link]

Bill regulating sexual conduct while in police custody stalls in RI Assembly [link]

Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act would ban possible Biden plan to house transgender women in women’s prisons- [link]

The New Violence Against Women Act Aims To Protect Women From State Violence [link]

ACLU Director Steve Brown details history of prostitution laws in Rhode Island [link]

Protesters drive anti-trans Texas House candidate Jeff Younger out of event at UNT [link]

RI SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN ARCHAIC LAW WHICH DECLARED INMATES SERVING LIFE SENTENCES “CIVILLY DEAD” [link]

Guaranteed income experiment provides hope for formerly incarcerated [link]

After decades of lobbying, supporters say they have the votes in the House to pass a reparations bill [link]

Inside Forest Defenders’ Blockade of Atlanta’s “Cop City” Training Compound [link]

Her Boyfriend Killed Her Baby While She Was at Work. Oklahoma Might Lock Her Up for Life. February 10th, 2022- [link]

Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn’t insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial. [link]

Check out the stats for this years trafficking super bowl scam.-February 16th, 2022 [link]

‘Our hearts are broken’ – groups gather at the State House to push prison moratorium bill- February 15th, 2022 [link]

Switter, the Twitter for Sex Workers, Is Shutting Down- February 14th, 2022 [link]

Police Search Rape Kit DNA To See if Victims Are Also Criminals February 15th, 2022 [link]

Protesters call for 5-year halt on prison construction in Massachusetts [link]

Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law [link]

The term “black on black crime” is a particularly pernicious trope [link]

Police shot dead a record 1,055 people last year – the highest number in SEVEN years: Black people killed at twice the rate as white [link]

US Military Faces Crisis in Hawaii After Leak Poisons Water- February 6th, 2022 [link]

SCOTUS Just Blew Up the Voting Rights Act’s Ban on Racial Gerrymandering- February 7th, 2022 [link]

Happy Black History Month From Companies That Make Prison Even Lonelier- February 3, 2022 [link]

D.C. Cops Conspired to Keep Records From Reporters, Activists, and Critics, Says Lawsuit– February 3, 2022- [link]

After violence at N.J. jail, oversight committee probes housing and mental health- January 29th, 2022 [link]

Flaws plague a tool meant to help low-risk federal prisoners win early release- January 26th, 2022 [link]

Jails In Jeopardy Following New Treasury Rule: Federal Covid Relief Must Help People- January 19th, 2022 [link]

The Economic Costs of Pretrial Detention- January 19th, 2022- [link]

Atlanta Reckons with the Convict Labor that Built the City- January 18th, 2022 [link]

A new piece of legislation offered in Kentucky would “make operating a charitable bail organization unlawful.” January 18th, 2022– [link]

Conservatives prepare new push for a constitutional convention- December 8th, 2021 [link]

In 1831, a group of white rioters razed the Providence neighborhood of Snowtown. Now, archaeologists are excavating its legacy- October 5th, 2021 [link]

Action Report From Fight Toxic Prisons On Lockdown Demanding Release Of Prisoners In The Midst Of Covid-19 Pandemic. April 17th, 2020 [link]

BAY AREA TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE June 2016 [link]

North Carolina woman who was granted clemency by Obama after serving 21 years in prison for a drug conviction dies two years after her sentence was commuted= February 27th, 2018 [link]

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