The California Prison Moratorium Project is a

grassroots A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or continent movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from volunteers at the local level to imp ...

organization co-founded by Dr. Ruth Gilmore, involved in

Prison Abolition The police and prison abolition movement is a political movement, mostly active in the United States, that advocates replacing policing and prison system with other systems of public safety. Police and prison abolitionists believe that policing a ...

through

Critical Resistance Critical Resistance (CR) is a U.S. based organization with the stated goal of abolishing the prison-industrial complex (PIC). Critical Resistance's national office is in Oakland, California, with three additional chapters in New York City, Los ...

, and Ernesto Saveedra, a youth advocate, for the purpose of stopping "all public and private prison construction in California". Over its activist life, the CPMP has partnered with a number of groups including

, The California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), and many other abolitionist organizations to move forward in their goal of halting any erection of additional penal facilities within the state of California. In 2001 they successfully worked to prevent construction of a new Delano Prison.

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{{Reflist Prison reform Prison abolition movement