Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - Approved

• Program that organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights, and to reunify families and communities.
• • Owner
    Mrinalini Narayan
  • Created On
    12-07-2020
  • Updated On
    01-25-2021
  • Update Reminder
    N/A

• How To Contact

  • Name
    Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
  • Phone
    (415) 255-7036
  • Fax
    N/A
  • Email
    info@prisonerswithchildren.org
  • Address
    4400 Market St
  • City
    Oakland
  • State
    CA

• More Information

  • Start Date
    11-07-2020
  • Expiration Date
    N/A
  • Eligibility
    free
  • Fee
    0.00
  • Organization
    Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
  • Zip Code
    94608

• Helpful Links

  • About Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
    https://prisonerswithchildren.org/about-us/
  • Projects
    https://prisonerswithchildren.org/legal-advocacy/
  • Contact Us
    https://prisonerswithchildren.org/contact-2/

• Detailed Information

  • Legal Advocacy: 

    LSPC engages in impact litigation, as counsel or co-counsel, and occasionally as a plaintiff.  Our litigation is usually at the request of, or in collaboration with, California legal services offices. We work to support movements and issues embraced in the communities we serve.

    Since 2012, we have been co-counsel on a major federal class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons. This lawsuit is an outgrown of the historic prisoner hunger strikes of 2011 centered in Pelican Bay State Prison.

    In the economic justice area, we have been co-counsel on cases to reform traffic court fines and fees and to restore drivers’ licenses to low income people. This effort is part of a national response to local court injustices that came to light in the aftermath of the Ferguson protests about the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

    All of Us or None: 

    All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and our families. We are fighting against the discrimination that people face every day because of arrest or conviction history. The goal of All of Us or None is to strengthen the voices of people most affected by mass incarceration and the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Through our grassroots organizing, we are building a powerful political movement to win full restoration of our human and civil rights. Learn more about us by watching our videos Locked Up, Locked Out and Enough is Enough below.
    

    Policy Advocacy: 

    As formerly incarcerated people we have been told on more than one occasion: “You have the right to remain silent!” However, when the suffering becomes too unbearable and negatively impacts all aspects of our personal, professional, family, and community life, we have an obligation to speak up. The need to speak up is especially acute when it appears that this suffering has been designed to outlast our jail or prison sentences. 

    LSPC’s Policy Academy trains formerly incarcerated people throughout the state of California in basic legislative advocacy skills and then organizes opportunities for them to use their knowledge. The trainings give important background on mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on communities of color, as well as information about legislative advocacy, community organizing and the California legislative process.

    We have conducted Policy Academy trainings in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, East Palo Alto, Fresno, and Riverside. LSPC engaged in a series of Policy Academy trainings for youth, held at College of Alameda, Ryse Youth Center in Richmond, and Project WHAT, an organization for youth with incarcerated parents. We have also done a training for Essie’s Justice Group, a support group for women with incarcerated loved ones.

    Ban on the Box: 

    Our Ban the Box campaign calls for removing the question and check box, “Have you been convicted by a court?” from applications for employment, housing, public benefits, insurance, loans, and other services. These questions mean lifelong discrimination and exclusion because of a past arrest or conviction record.

    All of Us or None is recognized nationwide as the originator and the core of a Ban the Box movement that is sweeping the country. As of August 2015, over 150 cities or counties 35 states have removed questions about conviction history from their public employment applications – over 100 million people across the country live in a jurisdiction where the box has been banned in some form or another. Check out our Ban the Box historical timeline to see how we and our allies have developed this movement.

    
    

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