50+ pages of art and writings from women incarcerated throughout the country, including:
Here's a snippet:
Torturing Women Prisoners -- an interview with Victoria Law
On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (the federal level appellate court that reviews decisions from federal district courts in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, and Arkansas) issued the long-awaited decision in Nelson v. Norris. In this case, Shawanna Nelson argued that being forced to go through the final stages of labor with both legs shackled to her hospital bed was cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution.
In addition, there's a short feature in the Vue Weekly:
Women behind bars
The talk will be at Ukrainian Centre: 11018-97st Edmonton. A map of the area can be found here.
In addition, on Saturday afternoon, from 2:30 to 3:30 pm, I’ll be facilitating a workshop on how anarchists and other outside activists can support women struggling and resisting on the inside.
When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was 11. Sara's mom struggled with drug addiction, so when G.G. would drive Sara and her friends to the roller skating rink or the mall, it felt like having a real parent around. He gave Sara presents and told her she was special- so special, that she should never give sex away for free. He convinced her she was a product.G.G. groomed Sara like this for two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete and he forced her into prostitution. Sara and the other girls who G.G.
We are working to help secure the release of three domestic violence survivors Bea Smith-Dyer, Martina Olea & Patricia Joellen Johnson, and we need your support.* Currently we are having trouble with our online fax-alert so we are asking you to please email and call the Governor directly!*
Documentary Sweethearts follows rodeo team of female prisoners
Published: September 14, 2009
"I just wanted to get outside the fence, you know, the legal way, because I'd been locked up for so long," she said. Brooks is one of several former inmates at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft who will step out of the shadows of prison life and into the limelight of national television Thursday during the Cinemax premier of "Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo."
The documentary, directed by Bradley Be