The Harrassment
Continues, by Barilee Bannister
Barilee Bannister shares her
experience of sexual harassment by a guard at the prison, including
retaliation for her use of the grievance procedure. Keywords:
Sexual Harassment,
Labor,
Personal
Narrative
A Case of Battered Justice: Theresa Cruz,
Fighting Domestic and State Violence by Diana Block
This
article is a story about Theresa Cruz, a woman who was sentenced to
seven years to life after allegedly planning the murder of a man who had
abused and stalked her for five years. Cruz's case is reviewed and for a
short period of time she is released, only to be placed back into prison
two weeks later. Cruz's experience is an example of what many
battered women have had to face in challenging the law. Keywords:
Activism,
Domestic Violence,
Court Advocacy.
Illegal Strip Searches at the Cook County
Jail, by Tori Marlan
Marlan, a journalist for the Chicago
Reader, investigates the recent successful lawsuit against the Cook
County Sheriff for conducting group strip searches of women in the Cook
County Jail. Keywords:
Sexual Violence,
Guard-Prisoner
Relations,
Court
Advocacy.
Girl-on-Girl Violence Hearing
Testimony, by Laurie Schaffner
In this article, created as
testimony for hearings into the "problem of girl-on-girl violence" held
in Chicago, Schaffner challenges the idea of rising violence among girls
and makes concrete suggestions about ways we can support girls.
Keywords:
Youth,
Public Policy,
Gender.
Fight for Clemency for Women and
Prison For Defending Themselves Against an Abuser, by Michelle VanNatta
and Margaret Byrne
The Illinois Clemency Project for Battered
Women, was a project made up of prisoners, law students, lawyers, and
feminists, who assisted imprisoned women with requesting and fighting
for clemency within the state of Illinois. Keywords:
Domestic Violence,
Court Advocacy.
Surviving Solitary, a letter from
Laura Whitehorn, March 21st 1997
Laura Whitehorn wrote this
letter as a part of a packet for the National Campaign to Stop Control
Unit Prisons, discussing the tactics she used to survive in a control
unit. Keywords:
Control
Units,
Political
Prisoners,
Prison
Life.
Life in Hell, by Tali Woodward
This
article by Tali Woodward discusses the sexual assault of trans women and
gender-variant people housed in men's prisons, as well as the efforts of
trans women housed in the California Medical Facility in organizing
against sexual violence. Keywords:
Sexual Violence,
Transgender,
Activism.
Slient Rage, by Patricia Ramadan
Wright
Patricia tells how she survived domestic violence in her
marriage and then was later convicted of hiring someone to kill her
ex-husband. Keywords:
Sexual
Violence,
Domestic Violence, Personal Narrative, and Sexuality .
