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Prisons - Women

This collection contains materials relating to the specific conditions, challenges and struggles facing women in prison. Topics are varied but materials include conference papers, informational materials, legal perspectives and audio recordings.

Documents

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Medical Neglect, Control Units, Women in Prison

Date: 10/21/1996Call Number: PM 309Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource Center PARCProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Prisons - Women

News about the prison industrial complex and prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project, about compassionate release and women with AIDS. Also Catherine Campbell, an attorney with California Prison Focus, discusses the culture of violence at prisons, verbal provocations by the guards, mandates to confine members of rival gangs in same yard. Jean Stewart from the Disabled Prisoners' Justice Fund discusses the Armstrong case and the growing, neglected population of disabled prisoners and its causes. Karen Shain from Legal Services for Prisoners with Children speaks about women in prison and the class action law suits that are filed for work release, prenatal care, mother and infant programs, HIV. Herman Bell of the New York Three and former member of the Black Panther Party, discusses the need for support of political prisoners.

International women's day

Publisher: Revolting LesbiansFormat: FlyerCollection: Prisons - Women

Women, prison, globalization and resistence

Publisher: Critical ResistanceFormat: PamphletCollection: Prisons - Women

Program for a collaborative performance work featuring prominent radical female activists and artists

Women and imprisonment in the United States: History and current reality

Author: Nancy KurshanPublisher: Monkeywrench PressYear: 1995Format: MonographCollection: Prisons - Women

Through the Wire

Publisher: Committee to Return Silcvia Baraldini to Italy; National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political PrisonersYear: 1993Format: FlyerCollection: Prisons - Women