incarcerated women

14 posts

Vermont Department of Corrections once claimed to support abolition and is now aggressively pursuing a new prison

The “pinkwashing” of prisons ramps up in Vermont, where local officials are pushing for the construction of a “gender-responsive” facility

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10 Min
By: Sierra Dickey

New helpline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline’

Freedom for Immigrants recently launched Project Keep Away, a first-of-its-kind hotline, in two California women’s prisons

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Prison breastfeeding program in Florida helps build bonds between incarcerated mothers and their infants

“I can’t hold him every day, but I take comfort knowing I’m still allowed to feed my child”

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5 Min
By: Catherine LaFleur

Why don’t we know more about postpartum depression in the criminal legal system?

Women are the fastest-growing prison population, yet life-and-death issues related to pregnancy, including perinatal depression, are swept under the rug

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14 Min
By: Uzma Rentia

‘Categorical clemency’ offers new approach for incarcerated women to seek pardons and commutations

Advocacy groups like ACLU-NJ are promoting “categorical clemency” to put forth petitions for groups of people with shared lived experiences

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The pro-survivor hoax: How Kathy Hochul betrays incarcerated survivors

The New York governor’s pro-survivor brand is marred by her practice of abandoning survivors to abusive state cages

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5 Min
By: Linda Luu, Sojourner Rivers, Assia Serrano, Nathan Yaffe, Mon M

Newsom’s California Model for prison reform is all smoke and mirrors

The failed model was supposed to help incarcerated people exactly like me

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6 Min
By: Tomiekia Johnson

Formerly incarcerated women push for improved conditions in notorious California prison

The recent heat-related death of Adrienne “Twin” Boulware is the most recent horror to emerge from Chowchilla’s Central California Women’s Facility

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

State violence in prisons is sanctioned violation of women’s rights

TW/CW: Descriptions of forced strip searches and mentions of sexual harassment and abuse With a metal ID clip in my right hand, along with my sequined bobby pin, watch, and ring, I walked through the metal detector with my hands raised over my head. A uniformed woman holding a

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5 Min
By: E.J.

Multiple states are building new women’s prisons, but can they be stopped?

Tiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation.  In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent

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10 Min
By: Sierra Dickey

Collectives in the South help lead the charge to #FreeBlackMamas for Mother’s Day

Yolanda Johnson was detained in 2020 on a $20,000 bond, an extraordinary amount of money that left her with no sense of how or when she would be able to secure her freedom. She spent four months in Jefferson County Jail awaiting news on her court date until she

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

New York affordable housing proposal showcases non-carceral solutions

This past December, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled plans for Seneca, a slate of new affordable housing units located at the site of the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem. The minimum-security men’s prison, located at West 110th Street across from Central Park, was shuttered in 2019

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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