Survivors/Victims of Crime

PSJ is taking no position on these measures or any other ballot measure in the May election. Our focus right now is on defeating Mannix’s Mandatory Minimum Measure in November.

Four women incarcerated at the Washington State Corrections Center for Women in Purdy are suing the Department of Corrections after experiencing sexual misconduct, assault and rape at the prison. According to one of the attorneys for the women, the abuse her clients describe is, “Just the tip of the iceberg.”

Our focus here at Crime Survivors for Community Safety is preventing the sort of violence that happened to us from happening to anyone else, to create a different world. In order to fully realize that different world, it’s important for crime survivors to pay attention to the racism that drives the criminal justice system and how it shapes our responses to violence.

Strengthening Services for Crime Survivors - A policy priority of ours was to work with anti-violence advocates from across the state to increase funding for the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (ODSVS) Fund.

2007 was by far the most successful legislative session we’ve had since our inception in 1999.