Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Perhaps I'm just in a pissy mood, but it really took them this long tof figure this out?

Women’s health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice

By World Health Organization - Brenda J van den Bergh,a Alex Gatherera & Lars F M¸llera

Saturday, June 27th

3:00-4:00pm

For those of you who aren't regular readers of Maximum RocknRoll:

The major success of Resistance Behind Bars is that it is written so that every person can understand it -- Law uses effective statistics as well as stories and examples of prison life straight from the voices of the women living them.

Breaking Barriers

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed. Title VII of the act prohibits gender discrimination in employment, meaning that both male and female guards have the right to gender-neutral employment in prisons housing prisoners of the opposite gender. Given that most states have only one to two female prisons but many more male prisons, this has usually been applied to female guards’ right to employment in male facilities. However, Title VII also prohibits discriminating against male officers in female prisons.

Virginia women's prison segregated lesbians, others

especially not for women of color...

Budget Cuts to End Watsonville Women's Recovery Program

WATSONVILLE, Calif. - For a quarter of a century, Watsonville' s Hermanas Residential Recovery program has been the only place in south Santa Cruz County designated for women to treat drug addiction.

From the latest Social Responsibilities Round Table (of the American Library Association) newsletter:

There have been a number of excellent books written in recent years regarding the United States’ prison system (Christian Parenti’s Lockdown America and Sasha Abramsky’s Hard Time Blues come to mind). Resistance Behind Bars is different because it is self-consciously written from an activist standpoint.

At this year's Allied Media Conference in Detroit from July 17 to 19th:

Using Media to Connect People Inside and Out

(Sunday, July 19th, 10 to 11:30 am)

What are the concrete barriers to the flow of information across prison walls? How can they be overcome? This panel will address the physical, technological and intellectual barriers of media access to and from prisons.

Victoria Law will address the increasing challenges of getting independent media coverage *inside* prisons.

Join us for an evening with Vikki Law!

We will gather to listen to some of her words and talk about the realities of women's lives locked within the United States prison system. At this time there are 2.4 million people in prison with Black women being the fastest growing popula- tion getting locked up. We must learn about the strategies of resistance women have been using for years. The lessons from the past can shape our work for the future.