Category: Women and Prisons
Gillespie, Cynthia K. Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense and the Law. Ohio State University Press, 1989.
Political/legal analysis by the late director of the Northwest Women’s Law Center in Seattle, WA.
Girshick, Lori B. No Safe haven: Stories of Women in Prison. Northeastern Press, 1999.
This book examines the life experiences of forty female inmates in Western North Carolina, unearthing the inequalities within a criminal justice system defined by patriarchy. The author argues that prisons are used as a ?dumping ground? for women marginalized by a sexist social structure.
Harlow, Barbara. Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention. Wesleyan University Press, 1992.
A survey, with extensive excerpts, of writings by and about women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Israel, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa, and the United States.
This report contains the findings of studies conducted by the Human Rights Watch in U.S. Women?s Prisons from 1994-1996 about the sexual abuse of inmates. It advocates for specific policies to eradicate sexual abuse and improve prison conditions.