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Closing Argument
The Domestic Abuse Survivor to Prison Pipeline
Researchers surveyed people who kill their abusers. They found several complicated reasons why survivors end up in prison because of abuse.
News Inside
March 22
Her Story
Issue 16 highlights women’s experiences in the U.S. criminal justice system.
By
Lawrence Bartley
Life Inside
May 6, 2021
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.
By
Willette Benford
The Language Project
April 12, 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.
By
Lisette Bamenga
News
October 9, 2018
More Women Are Behind Bars Now. One Prison Wants to Change That.
Connecticut’s WORTH program uses therapy, classes and mentoring to try to keep women from coming back.
By
Maurice Chammah
Life Inside
October 4, 2018
Shattering the Maximum Security Ceiling
“I want to do the work that the guys do.”
by
Gina Clark
as told to
Manuel Villa
Looking Back
September 5, 2018
A Police Pioneer on Her Unfinished Business
Portland’s first female chief, Penny Harrington, recalls the steep climb to the top.
By
Ivonne Roman
Commentary
January 24, 2018
How Post-Prison Reentry Programs Fail Queer Women
Having a man counts as a plan in some reentry programs.
Erin Kerrison
News
November 9, 2017
The Unique Sexual Harassment Problem Female Prison Workers Face
When women report abuse from the men in their custody.
By
Alysia Santo
Feature
November 1, 2017
Building Toward a Future
The unique prison re-entry plan conceived by — and for — women.
By
Eli Hager