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AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forces Woman to Give Birth While Shackled

The news team for Telemundo 52 recently reported on Alma Minerva Chacon, a women who was terrorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Unfortunately, she is just the latest in a long line of Latinos who have suffered at the hands of the ruthless Sheriff whose personal goal is to rid Arizona of all "illegals" and just maybe, all Latinos. Arpaio has repeatedly stated that he is breaking no laws and just enforcing the constitution by arresting more than 600 Latinos a year.

VA prison denies access to religious services and places women thought to be lesbians in segregated wing

Officials investigate complaints at women's prison
By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer

NC: Women Prisoners File Class Action Suit Against DOC for Extensive Sexual Violence

On August 24, 1974, Joan Little, a twenty-one-year-old black woman and the only female prisoner in North Carolina’s Beaufort County Jail, killed Clarence Alligood, a sixty-two-year-old white male guard. Alligood had entered her cell, threatened her with an ice pick and forced her to perform oral sex. She fled after stabbing him, but turned herself in eight days later.

Little was charged with first-degree murder which, in North Carolina, carried a mandatory death sentence.

ACLU suit on behalf of Bethany Cajune, 4 months pregnant when she was sentenced t

The following information and video is from Diana Kasdan, Staff Attorney, Reproductive Freedom Project American Civil Liberties Union about information about a lawsuit the ACLU filed today on behalf of Bethany Cajúne, a young mother who was denied medically necessary treatment when she was about 4 months pregnant and sentenced to a local detention facility for traffic violations. In particular, this case challenges the jail's unconstitutional denial of her prescription medication to treat opioid dependency--which caused abrupt withdrawal, seriously jeopardizing Ms.

interview in Feminist Review

Resistance Through Writing: An Interview with Victoria Law

Survivor Maureen Carroll released after 25 years!

Dear Friends of Free Battered Women,

I'm thrilled to let you know that another incarcerated domestic violence survivor has been released from state prison! Maureen Carroll was released on October 20th, due to a successful *habeas* writ challenging the Governor's reversal of her 2008 release on parole. Ms.

Freedom Dance Party! Sat, Nov 14th, NYC

Freedom Dance Party!Freedom Dance Party! Please also go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fpndd64jlI -- a short and wonderful video about Assata and this event.

New York State voters--proposition to allow contracting out prison labor!

For those of you in New York who are planning to go out and do so, the election has a (not widely-known) proposition that would allow the contracting out of prison labor in New York State:

"The New York State Constitution currently prohibits the farming out, contracting, giving away or selling of prisoner labor to any person, firm, association, or corporation. The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature to pass legislation to permit inmates in state and local correctional facilities to perform work for nonprofit organizations.

Sheriff's Office cannot force jail inmates to prepay the cost of being transported to a clinic to obtain an abortion

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Tuesday ruled that the Sheriff's Office cannot force jail inmates to prepay the cost of being transported to a clinic to obtain an abortion.

Judge Robert Oberbillig said he felt "compelled" to add the ruling to an existing injunction against the Sheriff's Office forbidding it from demanding court orders before taking inmates to abortion clinics.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio appealed that 2005 injunction all the way to the U.S.

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