Contributor: Victoria Law
Victoria Law, has been working with prisoners since high school. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars-New York City, a project that sends free literature to inmates nationwide, and a co-editor of the zine "Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison." She has written about activism and resistance among women in prison for Clamor Magazine, Punk Planet, Turning the Tide and Women in Action and is currently working on a book on this subject.
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Invisibility of Women Prisoner Resistance / Activism and Social Justice: Inside and Outside
Victoria Law’s research indicates that women prisoners are even more overlooked by mainstream society than their male counterparts. She explains how their struggles to improve their health care, abolish sexual, maintain contact with their children and efforts to further their education have been ignored or dismissed by those studying the prison-industrial complex.