Survivor Chronicles: Free Them All

As a heads up, this episode contains mentions of sexual violence, suicide, and abuse. In 2025, Tami Eldridge—who’s 25 years into a sentence of 57 to life—was invited to speak at Chief Judge Rowan Wilson’s State of the Judiciary. When she found out they wanted her to attend in person and wear a suit, she initially balked: “I'm not putting on no fake face, like I'm gonna go home one day.”...

As a heads up, this episode contains discussions of sexual abuse/assault, self-harm, and domestic abuse. Sara Kielly is a trans woman and criminalized survivor serving a 25 years to life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. From inside, Sara works as a journalist and a jailhouse lawyer, speaking out on prisoners’ rights and advocating for herself and her peers. In this episode, Sara te...

In this bonus episode, co-founder of Survived and Punished Mariame Kaba speaks to two S&P NY organizers, Senora (Nori) and Sojourner. This conversation was held virtually, so you may hear some audio glitches. There is mention of domestic and sexual violence. Mariame talks about how S&P was formed to center survivor politics and the abolition of policing and prisons, the carceral feminism o...

As a heads up, this episode contains discussions of domestic violence and child sexual abuse.  Taliyah Taylor had to handle more as a young person than most people do in several lifetimes. Her father abused her mother and brother, then he was murdered. She experienced child sexual abuse from multiple people. All this happened by the time she was 12. Many members of her family struggled with drug a...

This is Assia Serrano's story. Assia is a mother, an immigrant, and a criminalized survivor who served 17 years for her survival actions. She was resentenced and released under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, only for New York to hand her off to ICE for deportation to Panama. She needs a pardon to reunite with her family in the US. As this story makes clear, she has consistently...

We’re excited to introduce Survivor Chronicles: Free Them All, a Podcast by Survived & Punished NY. This podcast is built around the voices and analyses of criminalized survivors and their loved ones. In S&P NY, we have been building with criminalized survivors—people who took some action to survive abuse and were criminalized for it—since 2017. Many of our beloved comrades inside have com...