Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

from Rising from the Ashes

Click here for a video of Shawanna Nelson speaking on her experience of being inhumanely chained and denied pain management during the delivery of her son Jordan in 2003. As a result of her experience she brought suit against the Arkansas Department of Correction and the CO who chained her.

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from California Bars Prisoner From Reading 'The Atlantic':

Resistance Behind Bars is going into a second printing! The new edition will be out in Fall 2012.

Monday, December 19, 2011

• There are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents.
• If nothing changes, 15,000 more children may face a similar fate in the next 5 years.
• This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states-- the Applied Research Center identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged.
• Families are more likely to be separated where local police aggressively participate in immigration enforcement

is developing strategies and options to ensure that everyone can be safe and live free of violence without having to call in the police or prison system.

When I sent the manuscript of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women to PM Press, I knew that, if I didn't have some other big project to keep me occupied, I would drive myself up the wall waiting for edits and responses.

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