survivors deserve real justice.
Our movement to free survivors of domestic violence from prisons in Oklahoma is growing by the day.
OUR COALITION KEEPS GROWING
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Oklahoma Survivor's Justice Act
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
What is Criminalized Survivorship?
We're working to pass a Survivor's Justice Act in Oklahoma. This bill would allow mitigating evidence of abuse at sentencing in a criminal trial. It would also allow survivors who have been sentenced another chance at justice through re-sentencing.
What is Criminalized Survivorship?
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
What is Criminalized Survivorship?
Criminalized survivorship is the experience of being a survivor of violence, and then being subjected to criminal prosecution for fighting back against the abuse.
Our society frequently places the blame for violent acts on women, even when the women were not the primary perpetrators of violence.
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
We're connecting with criminalized survivors in Oklahoma prisons to gather their stories, support them in the ways they need, and provide solidarity.
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Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
Meet Oklahoma's Imprisoned Survivors
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Why OKlahoma?
Since before we became a state, violence has been like a second language to us.
From the colonization of native lands, to the Black Wall Street Massacre, Oklahomans are no strangers to violence and pain. It's in our DNA. And, even when we didn't want it to, it crept into our homes. It crept into what should've been our safest places: our relationships. Child victimization in Oklahoma is almost double the national average, meaning that so many children begin to transpose violence for love early in their lives. So it's no wonder many of our citizens go on to enter relationships that culminate in violence.
90% of those treated for intimate partner violence injuries were women. Of those, the highest incidence occurs in Black women and Native women respectively.
Over 40,000 domestic violence calls were made in Oklahoma County in 2021, less than a thousand of those led to arrest.
We have to accept that our responses to intimate partner violence are not effective. We may never be able to eradicate intimate partner violence. However, some survivors are getting caught in the cross hairs of ineffective policy. Many survivors of violence fight back, and even though their abusers have evaded accountability for numerous systemic reasons--they are made to pay through prosecution, imprisonment, and excessive sentences.
Our Coalition
