Victoria Law

Victoria Law is a freelance writer, analog photographer and parent. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements & Communities.

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#FreeBlackMamas bails black mothers from jail for Mother’s Day

May 11, 2019

Victoria Law

#FreeBlackMamas bails black mothers from jail for Mother’s Day

How organizers raised over $233,000 in one day to bail hundreds out of jail

‘We are humans, not animals’ — women in California’s largest immigrant prison hold hunger strike

Wave of hunger strikes at immigrant prisons gains momentum

Thousands of drug war prisoners are going home early thanks to years of organizing

What does a book have to do with a movement?

What ‘Orange Is the New Black’ tells us about sexual abuse in women’s prisons — and how to stop it

Family members of prison hunger strikers mobilize against solitary confinement

Despite advances, the trans struggle for justice behind bars is just beginning

The struggle to abolish bail gaining momentum in Massachusetts

7 ways to revolutionize childcare and build all-ages movements

7 ways to support people in prison

Changing the culture of domestic violence one quilt square at a time

Solitary not yet over at Rikers, but advocates keep fighting

Despite enduring a lifetime of violence, Kelly Savage emerges as an in-prison activist

8 ways to support protests against the criminal punishment system, if you can’t get out on the street

A Thanksgiving call for help from a mother in prison

The fight for prison phone justice continues

Why prisons don’t work and how we can do better — A conversation with Maya Schenwar

What are men doing to challenge and stop gender violence?

A mother who just wanted to know when her son would eat

It’s 2014. Why do we still need laws banning coerced sterilization?

Addressing domestic violence — together

‘I never want anyone else to go through what I did’