COVID-19 and Incarcerated Women

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Join us as we have an in-depth conversation with the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the Minnesota Prison Doula Project.

Join us for a conversation on how COVID-19 in women’s prisons exposes inequalities in treatment. We welcome members of the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the Minnesota Prison Doula Project for this conversation. Lindsey Linder is Senior Policy Attorney for the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. Since joining TCJC in 2015, she has focused primarily on youth and women’s justice. Lindsey co-founded the Texas Women’s Justice Coalition, a statewide group of more than 60 system-impacted women and advocates calling for women’s justice, and she is a 2020 finalist for the Austin Under 40 Awards for her policy work and advocacy. Lindsey has long been active in community service and volunteerism. In 2011, she was awarded first place in a national fundraising campaign, which resulted in an opportunity for her to visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and it was this experience that sparked her passion for legal advocacy. Lindsey utilized her position of leadership as President of Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity to organize local fundraising, community service, and advocacy efforts. During summer 2014, she interned with UNICEF in Tel Aviv, Israel, drafting a report on Israel’s implementation of the UN treaty Convention on the Rights of the Child to be submitted to the New York and Geneva United Nations headquarters for review. Lindsey joined TCJC as a member of Senator Rodney Ellis’ Texas Legislative Internship Program, and she continued to support TCJC while completing law school, receiving her Juris Doctor with honors from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2016.Cynthia Simons is the Grant Me The Wisdom Foundation (GMTW) Women&#x27;s Fellow for the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. Her passion for civil rights and justice reform stems back to the age of 16, when she graduated from high school and attended the University of Texas at San Antonio. That passion has since been fueled by a firsthand view of the justice system: As a formerly incarcerated woman, Cynthia hopes to protect women’s rights and ensure that women have access to resources and rehabilitative services before, during, and after interactions with the justice system. This includes the critical need for strategies that promote family connection and reunification. At TCJC, Cynthia works to end mass incarceration and support women and families who have been impacted by the justice system; she collaborates with the Texas Women’s Justice Coalition in support of trauma-informed programming and gender-responsive reforms.Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health. Dr. Shlafer&#x27;s research focuses on understanding the developmental outcomes of children and families with multiple risk factors. She is particularly interested in children with parents in prison, as well as the programs and policies that impact families affected by incarceration. In addition to her research and teaching activities, Dr. Shlafer is a volunteer guardian ad litem in Hennepin County where she serves as an advocate for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court.The Minnesota Prison Doula Project (MPDP, formally Isis Rising) is a prison‐based pregnancy, birth, and parenting program provided to incarcerated women at the prison in Shakopee, Minnesota. The program includes a weekly support group facilitated by trained and experienced doulas, as well as individualized support for expectant incarcerated mothers.

COVID-19 and Incarcerated Women

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