Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Author sheds light on female prisoners fighting back.

Inspired by the appalling conditions many American women face in correctional facilities, including one HIV-positive inmate being kept from seeing an HIV specialist for several months, writer Victoria Law penned Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press, $20). Law found that instead of waiting for the prison administration to make changes, these inmates took matters in their own hands. “They rebelled against the oppressive top-down prison model,” Law says.

For full review, go to:
http://www.poz.com/articles/female_prisoners_hiv_2341_16799.shtml

and for those of you who have a loved one with HIV behind bars, Paul Wright, editor and publisher of Prison Legal News, penned a piece on getting the needed meds inside:
http://www.poz.com/articles/prison_time_hiv_2341_16826.shtml