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Lawmakers Across the U.S. Want Menstrual Equity for Incarcerated Women

Several states are fighting to put an end to the time when women prisoners do not even make enough to afford a box of tampons.

Well-Intentioned Efforts at “Reform” Have Uniquely Hurt Incarcerated Women

Chandra Bozelko

We need more than benign purpose to craft policy. What women are facing now in the criminal justice system is proof.

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Solidarity and Liberation on Mama’s Day

Mandy Van Deven

Life may be suffering, but we all have the ability to show up for one another—on Mother’s Day and every day.

No Justice: When Abuse and Incarceration Intersect

Chandra Bozelko

Women don’t just face the prison industrial complex. They face a prison abuse complex—and their untreated victimization puts them at higher risk for incarceration.

It’s Not Too Late to Give the Gift of Support and Solidarity

Gloria Steinem

We started the Ms. Magazine Prison and Domestic Violence Shelter Program to let women in prison know they are seen and valued, and that feminists remember them and are fighting for them and alongside them.

Gender, Class and Incarceration

Christia Mercer

More and more women with economic and social advantages are attending institutions of higher learning—but women without those advantages increasingly find themselves in penal institutions.

Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex Remains a Feminist Issue

Katie Farro

This week’s prison strike is the tactic of a growing movement that promises to tackle the systemic violence touching countless women’s lives.

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Ending the Rape Kit Backlog: What’s the Price of a Survivor’s Peace of Mind?

Emma Niles

A nationwide investigation spearheaded by USA Today has found that at least 70,000 rape kits sit untested in laboratories around the country. While Detroit and other cities have made headlines for their determination to clear rape kit backlogs (in Detroit’s case, only after the Department of Justice found its police department guilty of “negative, victim-blaming beliefs” in 2008) this […]

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What You Won’t See on Orange Is the New Black

Beatrice Codianni

When I heard that Piper Kerman wrote the book Orange is the New Black about her experience at the Danbury, Connecticut federal prison camp, I was excited. I served part of my 15-year sentence with her and I found the book an accurate snapshot of Danbury FPC. (Full disclosure: I am “Esposito” in Piper’s book.) […]

Angela Davis’s Legacy of Collective Solidarity

Jenevieve Ting

“The masculinist mode of representing history makes it so that, too often, credit is not given where it’s due.” These words—among an impassioned treasure-trove of others—were delivered by longtime political activist, radical queer feminist, writer and scholar Angela Davis this past Monday night. On the 43rd anniversary of her release from prison following her acquittal […]

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