Lisa Russ
Name:
Lisa Russ
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Movement Strategy Center
Lisa works with the Strong Families Initiative as a Communications Strategist, which includes leading communications for multiple campaigns, editing the reproductive justice blog, and supporting racial justice leaders to find and use their voices as writers. Lisa lives, works and plays in Oakland with her husband and their two kids.
Lisa's articles
Incarcerated Mothers in California Become Cast-Offs in Political Game
A widely-supported bill intended to close gaps in existing legislation and ensure that correctional officers would use the least restrictive restraints possible on pregnant women is vetoed by the governor.
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Will Governor Brown Keep Pregnant and Laboring Women in Chains?
The bill to prevent the shackling of pregnant women in CA's prisons, is the California State Sheriff's Association's top priority for a veto. It means more for them to veto this bill than any other bill on the Governor's desk right now. Those who follow politics in Sacramento know this does not bode well.
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