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Category: Women and Prisons

Women and Prisons

Watterson, Kathryn. Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Dubbed “a cold, hard view of life of women in American prisons,” this book presents the life stories of women prisoners and argues that prison is a form of institutional violence perpetrated primarily against the poor and people of color.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012
Women and Prisons

Williams, Evelyn. Inadmissible Evidence. Lawrence Hill Books, 1993.

The story of Assata Shakur?s aunt and lawyer.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012
Women and Prisons

Wilson, Christina. Loving in the War Years: Black women loving women in the War on Drugs. Arise Magazine, May 2003.

August 20, 2003December 18, 2020

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