Category: Women and Prisons

This book contains extremely powerful photos of women prisoners in France, Czech Republic, India, Israel, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The images and writings serve to illustrate the continuum of violence against women and show how victimized women are criminalized by a sexist and racist criminal justice system.

This powerful collection of writings from the perspective of women of color deals with the difficulties of survival in the face of increasing criminalization, aggressive law enforcement, welfare ?reform? and draconian immigration policies.

This book examines the affect of gender stereotypes on the agency and resistance of women prisoners, in particular how women negotiate power based on their social locations.

Statistical and analytical study of the failure of the prison reform movement, focusing on a history of the first reform school for girls in the U.S.