California Coalition For Women Prisoners (CCWP) is an abolitionist organization that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). CCWP develops advocacy methods to change brutal conditions of confinement, win release for individuals, and challenge the foundations of the criminal legal system. CCWP's visiting program monitors and challenge the abusive conditions inside the women’s prisons and jails, including grossly inadequate health care services, sexual and physical abuse, and overcrowding. They also fight for the release of women and transgender prisoners, with a focus on prisoners with Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences; survivors of domestic violence; elder prisoners and youth. CCWP supports women and transgender prisoners in their process of re-entering the community. They advocate for resource development, offer skills and leadership training and build community. CCWP's writing warriors aim to establish supportive relationships with women, trans and GNC people at CCWF and provide limited forms of advocacy for people when possible. They also act as a vehicle for sharing written resources and materials and for promoting other forms of collaborative learning. Cross Bars & Borders is a project of CCWP dedicated to growing international solidarity with women, trans, and gender non-binary people who are impacted by the global prison industrial complex (PIC) and other linked forms of state-sanctioned, gendered violence around the world. CCWP also has a branch office in Los Angeles, CA. To know more about their services, please contact them directly.