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<DIV> </DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> <BR><IMG src="cid:30935035-CAC2-4BA0-88B0-44E8311B320B"><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Media Advisory<BR></B>For March 30, 2007 Contact: Vanessa Huang<BR> 510-508-9106 <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><BR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 21px"><B>Women, Action, and the Media Hosts Press Briefing:<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=7><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 25px">DEMYSTIFYING “GENDER RESPONSIVE PRISONS” </SPAN></FONT></B></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><BR> <BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>WHEN:</B> Friday, March 30, 2007 at 4:00 pm EST<BR> <BR><B>WHERE:</B> Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Room 32-155<BR> <BR><B>WHO: </B>Justice Now, the country’s only teaching law clinic dedicated to the needs of women in prison.<BR> <BR><B>WHAT:</B> Women, Action, and the Media hosts a new series of briefing sessions for journalists to hear from <BR><B> </B>national and international experts about the latest trends, information, and thinking on select <BR> issues which have a specific impact on women.<BR> <BR><B>WHY:</B> There is a dangerous new national policy trend threatening to radically expand the reach of <BR><B> </B>imprisonment and its harms on women and transgender people from communities of color and <BR> low-income communities. In a political climate where public opinion increasingly is opposed to <BR> prison construction and spending, this trend exploits the needs of people in women’s prisons by <BR> using a theory of "gender responsiveness" purportedly aimed at improving women's lives to foster <BR> public support for prison expansion via mini prisons spun to the public as "community-based" <BR> and "alternatives to incarceration."<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>PHOTO OP:</B> 34 foot long scroll containing signatures of over 3,000 people in women’s prisons opposing this<BR>policy trend.<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></FONT>
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