Women
and Prison: a Site for Resistance
A project of Beyondmedia Education
Articles and Interviews by Keyword



Abolition

Remarks from "Forms of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex", by Pilar Maschi

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Activism

A Case of Battered Justice: Theresa Cruz, Fighting Domestic and State Violence by Diana Block

The Fire Inside, by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls, by Girl Talk and the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Invisibility of Women Prisoner Resistance, by Victoria Law

Remarks from "Forms of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex", by Pilar Maschi

Interview with Brenda Myers

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

How the Criminal Justice System Uses Domestic Violence Programs Against Native Women, by Andrea Smith

When Love Flies Free, by Ann Folwell Stanford

Why A Book About Women In Prison, by Silja Talvi

Fight for Clemency for Women in Prison for Defending Themselves Against an Abuser, by Michelle VanNatta and Margaret Byrne

Life in Hell, by Tali Woodward

Audio

Sound Clip: Comedy as Resistance , by Dionna Griffin

Sound Clip: "101 Uses for a Maxi Pad" , by Dionna Griffin and Brenda Myers

Remarks from "Forms of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex", by Pilar Maschi

Lesbians and the Death Penalty: Comments from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Joey Mogul

Remarks from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Beth Richie

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

Children of Prisoners

From Jail to Yale, by Chesa Boudin

Do I Have to Stand for This?, by Kimberly Burke

Children Do Hard Time for Their Parents' Crime, by Kim Mikesell

Mother's Day in Chowchilla, by Sara Olson

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Its Impact on Prisoner Mothers and their Children, by Gail Smith

The Day My Mother Was Sent Away, by Wenona Thompson

Mother's Day Rally Letters, by Timberly, LaToya, Michael James Henderson, Christopher, CJ Taylor, and Lenny

Community

Letters from Prison Camp, by Kathleen Desautels

Sound Clip: Comedy as Resistance , by Dionna Griffin

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Control Units

Surviving Solitary, a letter by Laura Whitehorn

Court Advocacy

Fight for Clemency for Women in Prison for Defending Themselves Against an Abuser, by Michelle VanNatta and Margaret Byrne

A Case of Battered Justice: Theresa Cruz, Fighting Domestic and State Violence by Diana Block

Illegal Strip Searches at the Cook County Jail, by Tori Marlan

Creative Writing

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

Feeling the Inside, by Rebecca Seiber

The Pearl of the Soul, by Rebecca Seiber

The World Within You, by Rebecca Seiber

A Prison Journal: The "Feeding" Experience, by Tammica Summers

Domestic Violence

Interview with Hilda Berghammer

Interview with Joann Franklin

How the Criminal Justice System Uses Domestic Violence Programs Against Native Women, by Andrea Smith

Interview with Rose

Dehumanization Resistance, by Tammica Summers

Being An Inmate, by Tammica Summers

Fight for Clemency for Women in Prison for Defending Themselves Against an Abuser, by Michelle VanNatta and Margaret Byrne Silent Rage, by Patricia Ramadan Wright

Family

Interview with Denise Dunkley

Interview with Naoma Dye

Two Immigrants Who Followed the Path to Citizenship Tell Stories of Detention and Deportation, an interview by Amy Goodman

Mapping the Way Home, by Patricia O'Brien

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

Gender

Interview with Denise Dunkley

Lesbians and the Death Penalty: Comments from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Joey Mogul

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

Remarks from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Beth Richie

Beyond Gender Specific Intervention: Theory-Driven Praxis, by Laurie Schaffner

A Group Blog on Women, Media, and McMissile , by Silja Talvi

Girl-on-Girl Violence Hearing Testimony, by Laurie Schaffner

Guard-Prisoner Relations

Prison Life: A Day, by Marilyn Buck

Do I Have to Stand for This?, by Kimberly Burke

The Vermont Women's Prison Project, by Mary Field Belenky and Judy Harden

Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson



Health

Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls, by Girl Talk and the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group

Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe V. Wade for Women in Prison, by Rachel Roth

Why A Book About Women In Prison, by Silja Talvi

Housing and Homelessness

Interview with Yolanda Mills

Immigration

Two Immigrants Who Followed the Path to Citizenship Tell Stories of Detention and Deportation, an interview by Amy Goodman

Labor

The Harassment Continues, by Barilee Bannister

Iyrania Hill interview

Letters

The Day My Mother Was Sent Away, by Wenona Thompson

Mother's Day Rally Letters, by Timberly, LaToya, Michael James Henderson, Christopher, CJ Taylor, and Lenny

Surviving Solitary, a letter by Laura Whitehorn

Media

Cracked Lenses: The Visual Exploitation of Crack Mothers By Alexandra Cox

Mental Health

Motherhood

Interview with Sheryl Abel

Interview with Joanne Archibald

Interview with Hilda Berghammer

Interview with Diana Delgado

Interview with Donna Henry Children Do Hard Time for Their Parents' Crime, by Kim Mikesell

Mother's Day in Chowchilla, by Sara Olson

Interview with Tina Reynolds

Interview with Rose

Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door, by Rachel Roth

Interview with Pamela Thomas

Will She Ever Know My Name? by Kebby Warner

Movement-Building

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Invisibility of Women Prisoner Resistance, by Victoria Law

Remarks from "Forms of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex", by Pilar Maschi

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Native American Prisoners

The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California, by Stormy Ogden

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

How the Criminal Justice System Uses Domestic Violence Programs Against Native Women, by Andrea Smith

Why A Book About Women In Prison, by Silja Talvi

Peer Support

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

Personal Narrative

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

The Harassment Continues, by Barilee Bannister

From Jail to Yale, by Chesa Boudin

Prison Life: A Day, by Marilyn Buck

Do I Have to Stand for This?, by Kimberly Burke

Women on the Inside, by Rachel Marie Crane-Williams

Letters from Prison Camp, by Kathleen Desautels

Two Immigrants Who Followed the Path to Citizenship Tell Stories of Detention and Deportation, an interview by Amy Goodman

Sound Clip: Comedy as Resistance , by Dionna Griffin

Sound Clip: "101 Uses for a Maxi Pad" , by Dionna Griffin and Brenda Myers

Harsh Reality, by Dawn Harding

Children Do Hard Time for Their Parents' Crime, by Kim Mikesell

The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California, by Stormy Ogden

Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson

A Modern Modest Proposal, by Sara Olson: with Caren Hill, J.S., and April Watson.

Mother's Day in Chowchilla, by Sara Olson

Are We Really Innocent Before Proven Guilty?, by Jennifer Price

Feeling the Inside, by Rebecca Seiber

The Pearl of the Soul, by Rebecca Seiber

The World Within You, by Rebecca Seiber

A Prison Journal: The "Feeding" Experience, by Tammica Summers

Dehumanization Resistance, by Tammica Summers

Being An Inmate, by Tammica Summers

The Day My Mother Was Sent Away, by Wenona Thompson

Mother's Day Rally Letters, by Timberly, LaToya, Michael James Henderson, Christopher, CJ Taylor, and Lenny

Surviving Solitary, a letter by Laura Whitehorn

Another Day: A Series of Poems, by Tammica Summers Silent Rage, by Patricia Ramadan Wright

Poetry

The Fire Inside, by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Life's Many Journeys', by Tracy Lucas

Women on the Inside, by Rachel Marie Crane-Williams

Harsh Reality, by Dawn Harding

Untitled Poem, by Heather Johnson

My Sunrise, by Rhonda Leland

Feeling the Inside, by Rebecca Seiber

The Pearl of the Soul, by Rebecca Seiber

The World Within You, by Rebecca Seiber

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

The Day My Mother Was Sent Away, by Wenona Thompson

Mother's Day Rally Letters, by Timberly, LaToya, Michael James Henderson, Christopher, CJ Taylor, and Lenny

Will She Ever Know My Name? by Kebby Warner

Political Prisoners

Prison Life: A Day, by Marilyn Buck

Letters from Prison Camp, by Kathleen Desautels

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Surviving Solitary, a letter by Laura Whitehorn

Another Day: A Series of Poems, by Tammica Summers

Prison-Industrial Complex

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison-Industrial Complex, by Angela Davis

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California, by Stormy Ogden

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson

A Modern Modest Proposal, by Sara Olson: with Caren Hill, J.S., and April Watson.

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Are We Really Innocent Before Proven Guilty?, by Jennifer Price

Prison Life

Interview with Sheryl Abel

Interview with Joanne Archibald

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

The Vermont Women's Prison Project, by Mary Field Belenky and Judy Harden

Interview with Hilda Berghammer

Prison Life: A Day, by Marilyn Buck

Do I Have to Stand for This?, by Kimberly Burke

The Fire Inside, by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Interview with Diana Delgado

Interview with Denise Dunkley

Letters from Prison Camp, by Kathleen Desautels

Interview with Naoma Dye

Sound Clip: "101 Uses for a Maxi Pad" , by Dionna Griffin and Brenda Myers

Interview with Donna Henry

Iyrania Hill interview

My Sunrise, by Rhonda Leland

The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California, by Stormy Ogden

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson

A Modern Modest Proposal, by Sara Olson: with Caren Hill, J.S., and April Watson.

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Are We Really Innocent Before Proven Guilty?, by Jennifer Price

When Love Flies Free, by Ann Folwell Stanford

Interview with Tina Reynolds

Surviving Solitary, a letter by Laura Whitehorn

Another Day: A Series of Poems, by Tammica Summers

Dehumanization Resistance, by Tammica Summers

Being An Inmate, by Tammica Summers

Why A Book About Women In Prison, by Silja Talvi

Program Description

Women on the Inside, by Rachel Marie Crane-Williams

Interview with Joann Franklin

When Love Flies Free, by Ann Folwell Stanford

Find Her, Feel Her, Free Her, by Pamela Thomas

Prostitution

Interview with Hilda Berghammer

"Our Bodies Are Not a Sacrifice": Prostitution, Criminalization, and the Incarceration of Women, by Kari Lyderson

Interview with Brenda Myers

Public Policy

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Mapping the Way Home, by Patricia O'Brien

All-White Jury Convicts Black Women, by Imani Henry

Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

Beyond Gender Specific Intervention: Theory-Driven Praxis, by Laurie Schaffner

Girl-on-Girl Violence Hearing Testimony, by Laurie Schaffner

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Its Impact on Prisoner Mothers and their Children, by Gail Smith

Racism

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison-Industrial Complex, by Angela Davis

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Remarks from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Beth Richie

"Our Bodies Are Not a Sacrifice": Prostitution, Criminalization, and the Incarceration of Women, by Kari Lyderson

The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California, by Stormy Ogden

The Conditions of Women's Prisons, by Sara Olson

"Rehabilitation, Orange Crush, and Little Fallujah, by Sara Olson

Environmental Essay, by Sara Olson

How the Criminal Justice System Uses Domestic Violence Programs Against Native Women, by Andrea Smith

Reentry

Interview with Sheryl Abel

Interview with Joanne Archibald

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

Interview with Naoma Dye

Mapping the Way Home, by Patricia O'Brien

Interview with Tina Reynolds

Interview with Pamela Thomas

Find Her, Feel Her, Free Her, by Pamela Thomas

Reproductive Rights

Cracked Lenses: The Visual Exploitation of Crack Mothers, by Alexandra Cox

Reproductive Rights in Theory and Practice: The Meaning of Roe V. Wade for Women in Prison, by Rachel Roth

Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door, by Rachel Roth

Relationships

Excerpt from Banished Pride, by Gina Autrey

The Vermont Women's Prison Project, by Mary Field Belenky and Judy Harden

Interview with Joann Franklin

Interview with Iyrania Hill

Sexuality

Interview with Denise Dunkley

All-White Jury Convicts Black Women, by Imani Henry

Lesbians and the Death Penalty: Comments from "Race, Class, Gender and the PIC" a panel discussion that occured as a part of Voices in Time, Lives in Limbo , by Joey Mogul Silent Rage, by Patricia Ramadan Wright

Sexual Harassment

The Harassment Continues, by Barilee Bannister

Sexual Violence

Interview with Donna Henry

All-White Jury Convicts Black Women, by Imani Henry

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

"Our Bodies Are Not a Sacrifice": Prostitution, Criminalization, and the Incarceration of Women, by Kari Lyderson

Illegal Strip Searches at the Cook County Jail, by Tori Marlan

Interview with Yolanda Mills

Interview with Brenda Myers

Life in Hell, by Tali Woodward Silent Rage, by Patricia Ramadan Wright

State Violence

All-White Jury Convicts Black Women, by Imani Henry

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by Bonnie Kerness

Illegal Strip Searches at the Cook County Jail, by Tori Marlan

What is the Procedure? , by Pamela Thomas

Substance Abuse

Interview with Hilda Berghammer

Cracked Lenses: The Visual Exploitation of Crack Mothers By Alexandra Cox

Interview with Naoma Dye

Interview with Donna Henry

Children Do Hard Time for Their Parents' Crime, by Kim Mikesell

Mapping the Way Home, by Patricia O'Brien

Interview with Pamela Thomas

Interview with Yolanda Mills

Transgender

Life in Hell, by Tali Woodward

Youth

Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls, by Girl Talk and the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group

Beyond Gender Specific Intervention: Theory-Driven Praxis, by Laurie Schaffner

Girl-on-Girl Violence Hearing Testimony, by Laurie Schaffner

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