Links to Articles about Gender, Incarceration and Resistance
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold Onto Their Children, Truthout, May 11, 2013.
Closing Cages: People Power Helps Stop Youth Incarceration, Truthout, March 11, 2013.
States Cut Prison Budgets, but Not Prison Populations, Truthout, February 14, 2013.
In US Since Age 10, But No Dream Act for Young Activist Who Helps Others, Truthout, December 26, 2012.
No Justice When Women Fight Back, Truthout, August 31, 2012.
Birthing Behind Bars: Fighting for Reproductive Justice for Women in Prison, co-written with Tina Reynolds of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory, Alternet, May 10, 2012.
Absent Compassionate Release, Austerity Helps Some Terminally Ill Prisoners Obtain Freedom, Truthout, March 12, 2012.
Occupy Prisons, New.Clear.Vision, February 14, 2012.
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: How a Prison Sentence Can Become a Death Sentence, Truthout, January 25, 2012.
Martori Farms: Abusive Conditions at a Key Wal-Mart Supplier, Truthout, June 24, 2011
Where Abolition Meets Action: Women Organizing Against Gender Violence. Originally appeared in Contemporary Justice Review. Reprinted on-line on New.Clear.Vision, March 2011.
Nor Meekly Serve Her Time: Riots and Resistance in Women's Prisons, New PoliticsVol:XII, issue 4, Winter 2010
Women Resist Behind Bars and also 6 Ways for People on the Outside to Support Women’s Resistance on the Inside (suggestions from women incarcerated throughout the country), WIN Magazine, Fall 2009
Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media, off our backs, October 2007
Unlikely Communities: Women in Prison Break the Alienation of Isolation (partial article), Clamor # 29. November/December 2004.
Workin’ for the Man, Clamor #26. May/June 2004
Barriers to Basic Care, Clamor # 21. July/August 2003. Reprinted in Prison Art Newsletter, vol. 3, issue 12. December 2003
Earlier versions of “The Invisibility of Women Prisoners’ Resistance” have been published in:
Turning the Tide. Volume 16, Number 3. Fall 2003
Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
an Italian translation is also available on-line