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
How the Criminal Justice System Uses Domestic Violence Programs Against Native Women
by
Andrea Smith
In this long article, Smith discusses criminal justice responses to Native American women’s experiences of violence, questioning the effectiveness of relying on the state for responses to violence given the overwhelming evidence of continuing state violence towards Native American communities. In Part Two, Smith then discusses alternative responses to violence. Smith concludes in Part Three with an overview of effective organizing campaigns working to end both state and interpersonal violence against women of color.
A Case of Battered Justice: Theresa Cruz fighting Domestic Violence and State Violence
by
Diana Block
This article is a story about Theresa Cruz, a woman who was sentenced to seven years to life after allegedly planning the murder of a man who had abused and stalked her for five years. Cruz’s case is reviewed and for a short period of time she is released, only to be placed back into prison two weeks later. Cruz’s experience is an example of what many battered women have had to face in challenging the law.
Silent Rage
by
Patricia Wright
Patricia tells how she survived domestic violence in her marriage and then was later convicted of hiring someone to kill her ex-husband.