Criminalized Survivors: Disrupting the Abuse to Prison Pipeline for Girls

The Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity and Rights4Girls were delighted to co-host a special event that examined the legal system's criminalization of girls and other young survivors of gender-based violence, as well as legislative efforts to disrupt the pipeline. The discussion was based on our co-authored report, Criminalized Survivors: Today's Abuse to Prison Pipeline for Girls,

We were honored to convene a panel of experts that included: 

• Elizabeth Quiroz, a survivor of child sex-trafficking whose sentence was commuted by Governor Jerry Brown and who went on to co-found Redemption House of the Bay Area; 
• Rachel de Leon, an investigative journalist whose work uncovering the unfounded arrests of sexual assault survivors is profiled in the Netflix documentary, Victim/Suspect;
• Human Rights for Kids (representative to be determined); and
• Yasmin Vafa, Executive Director of Rights4Girls and co-author of Criminalized Survivors. 
• Facilitated by: Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director of the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law and co-author of Criminalized Survivors.