Leslie at Digital Hollywood
Leslie Acoca participates on a panel, Women, Health, Wellness and Media: The Constituency of Care: From TV to the Internet – Apps to Websites, at the Digital Hollywood conference on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015.

Leslie Questions Zocalo Panel
Leslie Acoca (quoted below) asked 2 questions of a Zocalo Public Square panel on Prop. 47 sentencing reform in California. She later noted that if she had not brought up women and girls, they would not have been mentioned at all.

“The first question is: what gender specificity is there in all of the services and sentencing options that you’re describing? I spoke to the Attorney General’s office recently about this, and most of the re-entry programs are for men.

Secondarily, every prisoner loses their health benefits when they are incarcerated – loses or has it suspended. What efforts are being made to link health and justice, since we know that the ACA can provide a solution in linking our most disadvantaged re-offenders to health benefits?”

See the whole video below — Leslie’s questions begin at 36:18.

Leslie Acoca in “Under Siege!”
NGHJI President and Founder Leslie Acoca is featured in this clip from “Under Siege! Our Baby Girls Are Going to Prison for Profit,” a documentary film that explores the deplorable mass incarceration of girls in the United States.

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