Join Victoria Law and advocates who were incarcerated in California & New York for a conversation about the horrors of the pandemic behind bars and grassroots freedom organizing. Books will be available for sale & signing.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author who has written about incarceration, particularly women's incarceration, for nearly two decades. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-authored with Maya Schenwar), and “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration. Her latest book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, is sadly still relevant.

Kelly Savage-Rodriguez is the DROP LWOP coordinator for the  California Coalition For Women Prisoners. Kelly was incarcerated for 23 years. Governor Brown commuted her Life Without Parole sentence in December of 2017, and she was finally released on parole in November 2018. As a domestic violence survivor, Kelly was forced to experience the similarities between domestic violence and the violence of incarceration. She is also the executive chair of the Human Rights Watch National LWOP Leadership Council NLC.

David is a father and grandfather who was imprisoned in New York State for several decades, including the first 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.