Category: Women and Prisons

A forum for prisoners and their loved ones, as well as various activists, professionals and recovering persons, who desire and see an absolute need for social change.

Information on battered women who kill in self defense, domestic violence and sexual abuse, when battered women seek help, recidivism of abusers and of women who kill. Also – on imprisoned women and their children, and on sentencing disparity based on gender.

This report is a follow up to Not Part of My Sentence, with a specific focus on the sexual misconduct of guards and the mistreatment of pregnant women in custody.

This report is a direct presentation of statistics based on interviews with prisoners in California and outlines the human rights abuses experienced by incarcerated women in the United States. It profiles the female prison population, illuminating the discriminatory practices of the criminal justice system.