ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Women and Prison project is a website, installation + zine created entirely from the work + lives of America's incarcerated women. Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance is a project of Beyondmedia Education. Learn more about the project.
NEWS FROM THE WEB
Nov 30, 2011
Closed women’s prison has new job
Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Canon City has a new mission to provide job for inmates.
Nov 28, 2011
Treatment of female prisoners criticised
A number of women prisoners were ordered to strip naked in front of male staff and asked to sit on a special chair, known as the BOSS, which scans internal cavities for contraband.
Nov 28, 2011
Prison through the eyes of a child
A five-year-old boy who was born inside a Prey Sar Correctional Centre, says he would like to leave the prison and be free, but he doesn’t want to leave his mother.
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Newest Stories
When I think back
by
Rachel Galindo
Galindo shares her story about the supportive relationships in prison that have helped her to endure prison life.
From Montgomery to Los Angeles and Beyond: Formerly Incarcerated People Building a Movement
by
Dorsey Nunn
and Kenneth Glasgow
Would you feel like a full citizen if most of your civil and human rights were denied you? If the privileges afforded to community members were withheld from you, would you feel like a welcome member of the community? Probably not.
Children on the Outside: Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration
by
Judith Greene
and Patricia Allard
Children “on the outside” with a parent in prison suffer a special stigma. Too often they grow up and grieve under a cloud of low expectations and amidst a swirling set of assumptions that they will fail.