FAMM: Get interactive with the HBO documentary “The Sentence”
FAMM is having a “Watch Party Week” 10/15-10/19, and challenging people to host a few friends and family members to watch the film at...
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Swop Behind Bars
Aug 30, 20182 min read
Pennsylvania prisons on lockdown as mystery illnesses probed
PITTSBURGH — A type of synthetic marijuana could be causing the widespread staff sicknesses that have prompted a lockdown at all state...
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Swop Behind Bars
Aug 11, 20182 min read
In Appreciation of Volunteers from Behind Bars
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Swop Behind Bars
Aug 3, 20183 min read
ACTION ALERT: Oakland CA
ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! Stop legislation that negatively impacts sex workers in Oakland. Going after clients violates...
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Swop Behind Bars
Jul 23, 20181 min read
MoveOn Petitions – PA Proclamation Addressing Stigma & Violence Against Sex Workers
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/pa-proclamation-addressing
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Swop Behind Bars
Jul 23, 20181 min read
Submit Your Story
SWOP Behind Bars is accepting submissions! We want to hear and share your sex work related arrest, incarceration and re/entry...
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Swop Behind Bars
Jun 21, 20182 min read
Allegheny County PA halts criminalizing of condoms in prostitution cases
Allegheny County halts criminalizing of condoms in prostitution cases Megan Guza Allegheny County police officers will no longer...
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Swop Behind Bars
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Media Links: Criminalization of Condom Possession in Pittsburgh
Media Links: Criminalization of Condom Possession in Pittsburgh 6.18.18 LaTasha Mayors. “New Voices Staunchly Opposes Criminalization of...
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Swop Behind Bars
Jun 19, 20184 min read
Action Alert: SWOP Pittsburgh to D.A. Zappala
Date: 6/18/2018 Hon. Stephen A. Zappala, Jr. Allegheny County District Attorney Courthouse, Room 303 436 Grant Street Pittsburgh, PA...
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Swop Behind Bars
Feb 26, 20181 min read
PA Press Release: Lackawanna County Prison Guard Charged with Sexual Offenses is Held for Trial
2/23/2018 HARRISBURG — Following last week’s arrests of seven current and former Lackawanna County prison guards for their roles in a...
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Swop Behind Bars
Feb 26, 20181 min read
Spotlight On: Philadelphia’s De/Incarceration Effort
Did you know that: a $3.5 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation was awarded to the city [of Philadelphia] in 2016 aimed at...
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Swop Behind Bars
Feb 26, 20181 min read
Understanding FOSTA & SESTA
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Swop Behind Bars
Feb 23, 20184 min read
Criminal Justice Reform: Cash Bail iv
Philly DA Larry Krasner won’t seek cash bail in certain crimes. Re/Post: February 21, 2018 Article by Chris Palmer, Staff Writer...
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Swop Behind Bars
Feb 22, 20185 min read
HIV & Solitary Confinement: CJ Palmer
On the 19th of January, 2018, CJ Palmer, a trans woman and former sex worker was charged with causing grievous bodily harm in relation to...
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Melanie Dante
Jan 28, 20181 min read
Today we trade fear for sanctuary
Today we trade fear for sanctuary!
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Swop Behind Bars
Jan 12, 20182 min read
2017 Paralegal Scholarships
SWOP Behind Bars awarded three scholarships to Blackstone Career Institute’s Paralegal Certificate Program on December 17, 2017 in honor...
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Swop Behind Bars
Dec 10, 20172 min read
In Philly: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Billy Penn Philadelphia on Slought: New documentary explores and exposes U.S. mass incarceration New documentary explores and exposes...
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Swop Behind Bars
Dec 20, 20162 min read
2016 Paralegal Scholarships
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Swop Behind Bars
Jul 5, 20162 min read
Forge a Way and Persevere
Post by Amber Batts I was arrested July 9, 2014 for sex trafficking. I’m an Alaskan, born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, moving to...
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Swop Behind Bars
May 21, 20162 min read
How to Support GiGi: Rockstar Activist, Wrongly Charged & Incarcerated
Gigi Thomas, MSW, is a leading human rights advocate and a transgender woman of color who has worked for more than 15 years in the...
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