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Her Story

Issue 16 highlights women’s experiences in the U.S. criminal justice system.

News Inside • 03.22.2024

Cadets Violently Strip Searched Us As Part of Their Training. For My Pain, I Got $325.

Willette Benford was one of several incarcerated women who sued the Illinois corrections department for using mass strip searches to train cadets. A small settlement check took her back to the shame and trauma of those incidents.

Life Inside • 05.06.2021

Good Intentions Don’t Blunt the Impact of Dehumanizing Words

Of course not everyone means harm when they use prison labels. But that doesn’t make the language any less damaging.

The Language Project • 04.12.2021

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