DVSJA Media Coverage

• June 21, 2011 (Women’s Media Center)
  FAIRNESS FOR DEFENDANTS WHO SURVIVE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
  On a humid morning in early June, more than 140 advocates representing some 100 organizations across New York State gathered in Albany to lobby for a recently introduced bill, the Domestic Violence Survivors Justie Act.
• June 13, 2011 (Legislative Gazette)
  ALTERNATIVE SENTENCES SOUGHT FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS
  Kim Dadou picked up her boyfriend from work one evening. She said he noticed the car was low on gas and told her: “If we run out of gas, I will kill you.”
• June 13, 2011 (Wall Street Journal by The Associated Press)
  SHORTER PRISON TIME SOUGHT FOR ABUSED WOMEN IN NY
  Kim Dadou spent 17 years in prison for manslaughter for shooting her boyfriend as he choked and threatened her in his car. She had called police several times before and used the gun he kept under the passenger seat to kill him.
• June 13, 2011 (Talk Back! WBAI radio clip)
  Host Hugh Hamiliton speaks with three members of the Coalition for Women Prisoners about the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act in the second hour of his show. (skip to second hour for interview)
• June 12, 2011 (Daily News)
  ABUSED—AGAIN
  Victims of domestic violence inNew York often get the book thrown at them when they’re charged with crimes related to their abuse, advocates charge.
• June 9, 2011 (New York Law Journal)
  STUDY BACKS LENIENCY FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS WHO BREAK THE LAW
  Judges should be given the discretion to impose shorter sentences or bypass incarceration entirely for domestic violence survivors who become criminal defendants in New York state, a report released Tuesday recommends.
• September 21, 2010 (InterPress Service)
  PRISONERS OF ABUSE
  Sharon White remembers the breaking point vividly. She was 21 years old and had been married to Andre for a little over a year. Looking back, she describes their life together as “a nightmare. Every day was a figh.”
• March 1, 2010 (Cornell Chronicle Online)
  PANEL PONDERS JUSTICE SYSTEM’S HANDLING OF CRIMES BORN OF DOMESTIC ABUSE
  Thousands of women sit in prison because they fought back against an abusive person in their lives, but they don’t always get to share their stories in court, said panelists Feb. 24 at the Cornell Law School.