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Women On the Inside
by Rachel Williams

This article comes from a program, called Women on the Inside, made up of a series of classes and workshops that took place in a Iowa Correctional Institution for women. Alongside long excerpts of her students’ work, Crane-Williams discusses the silencing of women in prison.

 personal-narrative  poetry  programs-in-prison

Where Love Flies Free: Women, Home, and Writing in Cook County Jail
by Ann Folwell Stanford

In this essay, Stanford weaves writing by her students at Cook County Jail into a meditation on the meaning of home and the impact of incarceration on all of us.

 activism  community  prison-life  programs-in-prison

The Scold’s Bridle: Alternative Publishing via Political Art
by Jenni Fagan

In the following words and images, Jenni Fagan examines the connections between the scold’s bridle and contemporary incarceration practices that deny women in prison the right to speak. She not only reveals that conditions faced by incarcerated women in the UK and US today mirror the torture endured by women in early modern Europe, but also illustrates the potential for change.