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Critical Resistance Oakland and Los Angeles’s campaign with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to #CloseCAPrisons has been making some game-changing headway in the past few months.
After we…
What is CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line?
As a political organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC), CR has a practice of taking prisoners’ phone calls as… In July, over 100 Californians joined Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons, a statewide online information session for the California prison closure campaign.
In July, over 100 Californians joined Building… Why are Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) and Critical Resistance (CR) fighting to close 10 prisons by 2025? What are we doing to ensure that we win and that resources are being invested in the life-affirming infrastructure all 
A Winning Step Toward a Prison-Free CA: Prisoner Resistance & the Fight to Close CA Correctional Center (CCC)
CR’s Prisoner Solidarity Phone Line is accepting volunteer applications!
CA: Thank You for Attending Building Power Across Walls To #CloseCAPrisons
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As we progress through the 11th anniversary of the CA prisoner hunger strikes against solitary confinement, where tens of thousands of prisoners across CA joined forces to challenge the use…
On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, dozens of Californians rallied outside the CA State Capitol Building for the Governor’s revised state budget to demand more closures to California’s prisons. …
Californians statewide are mobilizing to Sacramento on Wednesday, May 11 for the state’s budget revise to demand CA closes prisons and invests in our communities’ health and sustainability, not imprisonment and policing.
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2022 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Close California Prisons campaign! We wanted to share with you all some campaign updates from our working groups, calls…
Today (August 13, 2021), the CA Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR) released a post on Instagram stating the #DixieFire situation at CCC and HDSP is under control, but CCC…
Prison closure is on our horizon. As part of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s Prison Closure Workgroup, we are demanding the state start by closing 10 prisons in…