by Ivette Alé
Posted on August 3, 2017
Attention all advocates for care not cages! We have 28-days left to voice our recommendations for Prop. 57 regulations. The written public comment period ends September 1, 2017 at 5:00pm. It is up to us to make sure that California voters are not undermined in the CDCR’s proposed regulations. It is our duty to make sure…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on July 6, 2017
My name is Gina and I am the founder of Essie Justice Group – a fierce organization of women with incarcerated loved ones and a proud member of CURB. Our powerful mission: To build a movement to empower women with incarcerated loved ones. And to break the cycles of pain, isolation and poverty that many…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 28, 2017
We are happy to spread the news: Yesterday, June 27, 2017, the RISE Act (SB180 authored by Senator Holly Mitchell and Ricardo Lara) passed the California Assembly Public Safety Committee! After more than forty-five years of the War on Drugs, California is one step closer to passing legislation that moves toward undoing some of the…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 27, 2017
In April of this year I stood on the steps of the Capitol surrounded by a group of fierce advocates ready to speak truth to power on Prop 57. For years, I have worked alongside CURB and its members to bring our loved ones home, and our work on Prop 57 was one step closer…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 22, 2017
Yesterday, Governor Brown signed the 2017-18 CA State Budget. Increased investment in incarceration puts us all in danger of falling into Jeff Sessions’ plan to heighten racialized state violence. Alarming investments include: increases $500 million for state corrections increases $1.5 million for local community corrections refurbishes or replaces the 12 Oldest Prisons in California On…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 21, 2017
Last week, Jeff Sessions published an op-ed in the Washington Post, that calls for a new wave of the war on drugs and tough sentencing: “Being soft on sentencing means more violent crime. It’s time to get tough again.” The RISE Act is more important than ever! The RISE Act will repeal costly and ineffective…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 17, 2017
Last year, Governor Brown said he would develop a sustainable solution to California’s prison crisis. But in this year’s budget, he made it clear that he wants to move the state in the opposite direction by increasing CDCR spending to an all time high. Among the alarming moves, the budget: increases $500 million for state…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 14, 2017
Thank you to all those folks that came out to the LANMJ’s Mother’s Day event in May! This weekend we are celebrating Father’s Day at the Twin Towers and we want to invite you to join us. We also wanted to share the amazing video that MiTú created after our Mother’s Day event! You…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on June 7, 2017
In February 2017, in Oakland, California, we sat across from one another in a room full of people, each wearing passion and pain on our faces, eagerly awaiting the start of a strategy session to stop prison and jail expansion. The facilitator introduced us as the new CURB staff members who would be leading the…
by Ivette Alé
Posted on May 31, 2017
It’s go time for our California budget! Two weeks ago, Governor Jerry Brown released his revised state budget, increasing funding for CDCR to an all-time high of $11.4 billion. Although Brown’s budget projects a decline of the average daily prison population by approximately 2,000 in 2017-18 due to voter mandated criminal justice reforms like Proposition…
