And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:36:19 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "John V. Wilmerding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: AI USA Action: March 8 Intl Womens' Day: Women in US Prisons & > Jails >Cc: Liz Torpey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheila Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by gr.its.yale.edu id RAA29462 > >CERJ has the following request from Liz Torpey and Sheila Dauer of Amnesty >International to disseminate information about an important upcoming event >-- the next phase in the Amnesty International USA Campaign: > >From: Liz Torpey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: CERJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:44:56 -0500 >Subject: Campaign for Equity Restorative Justice (CERJ) > >To whom it may concern: > >I wanted to attend the CERJ meeting on Friday, January 8, 1999 cancelled >due to snow. I was wondering if it would be possible to circulate the >attached memo to all coalition members. It regards the women's focus of >Amnesty International's USA Campaign, specifically human rights violations >against female inmates in U.S. prisons. Please let me know if this is >possible. Thanks very much. > >Sincerely, >Liz Torpey > >FORWARDED MATERIAL BEGINS HERE: > >Amnesty International USA Action: International Women�s Day > >To: Interested Persons >From: Sheila Dauer, Director, AIUSA Women�s Human Rights Program >Re: AI Campaign for Women in U.S. Prisons and Jails >Date: January 21, 1999 > >As part of AI�s international campaign on the USA, "Rights For All", on >March 4, 1998, to coincide with the global celebration of International >Women�s Day, Amnesty International will be releasing a report on women in >U.S. prisons and jails. Relevant external materials and simultaneous >overseas actions by Amnesty members worldwide will supplement this report. >Within the U.S. borders, local chapters will be actively speaking out and >lobbying against the human rights violations American women experience >behind bars. The March 8th strategy will focus on three issues. > >Core Issues for Action > >1) Rape, sexual assault and other sexual misconduct by correctional >officers against female inmates. >2) Shackling of pregnant inmates, especially during labor and delivery. >3) Lack of appropriate or adequate medical care, including reproductive >health services, for female prisoners. > >Actions > >Legislative Actions in the U.S. > >In terms of federal legislation, Representative Conyers (D-MI) has >sponsored a bill, H.R. 1315, that would criminalize sexual contact between >correctional officers and female prisoners in states that lack such a >crucial statute. Currently 14 states do not have this legislation. >Amnesty International USA is working with Congresspersons and other human >and civil rights organizations to urge the passage of H.R. 1315, >specifically the Prevention of Custodial Sexual Assault by Correctional >Staff. A press conference on the importance of this bill is in planning >stages. > >At the state level, AIUSA is going to suggest principles that could inform >a statute that would criminalize sexual misconduct in the 13 states where >such human rights violations are not recognized by the law. The five >administrative regions of AIUSA have identified eight target states for >this year�s work (West: WA and UT; Northeast: VT and MA; South: AL; MidWest >MN; and Mid-Atlantic: VA and WV). We will lobby regionally on these bills >in the hopes of getting them introduced into the state legislatures. > >Nationwide Speak-Outs > >Regional AIUSA groups will organize Speak-Outs on Women in U.S. prisons and >jails for the week of March 8th, International Women�s Day. Those who >attend will be invited to create T-shirt designs that express their outrage >at the violations and their solidarity with women prisoners suffering these >abuses. The T-shirts will be displayed at the local Speak-Outs and at >AIUSA�s Finale Event for the USA Rights for All Campaign. Materials and >action suggestions for local chapters will be sent to them in a packet from >the Campaign Department in Mid-January. > >If you have any questions, feel free to contact me by phone at 212/807-8400 >or by email at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >Sheila Dauer > > > >-- >To subscribe to the CERJ E-Mail distribution list, simply send >an E-mail message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please include your name >and your state, province, or country of residence. Thank you! >-------------------------------------------------------------- >John Wilmerding, Gen'l Secretary | E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >=================================| Web: http://www.cerj.org >*CERJ* International Secretariat | ICQ Number: 18723495 >---------------------------------+============================ >Campaign | 217 High Street | For | A >for | Brattleboro, VT | Justice | AR >Equity- | 05301-3018 USA | that | ART >Restorative | Telephone & FAX | Restores | EAR >Justice | [802] 254-2826 | Equity | HEAR >================================================= HEART >Work together to reinvent justice using methods | EARTH >that are fair; which conserve, restore and even | HEARTH >create harmony, equity and good will in society | >>>|CERJ|<<< >============================================================== >We are the prisoners of the prisoners we have taken - J. 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