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A mixed-race black woman, Reed's mental health problems began in 2003 after the sudden death of her baby daughter. [5] [6] [7] Along with the baby's father, she was given the wrapped remains to take to the undertakers in a taxi. [8] In 2012, Reed was the victim of a severe attack from a white police officer PC James Kiddie, and suffered two ...
Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of America in 1977. [2] Her final appeals and the last three months of her life were chronicled by filmmaker Liz Garbus in the documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002).
Sandra Annette Bland (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015) was from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and was one of five sisters.She attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois and graduated in 2005, then Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
A 43-year-old inmate was fatally beaten while handcuffed inside a New York prison and the incident was filmed on bodycam footage, leaving many outraged at the scene.
Protesters hold up signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice for Robert Brooks” days after a disturbing video of the Black inmate’s fatal beating in New York
Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.
August 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump. Alice Marie Johnson (born May 30, 1955) [2] is an American criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner. She was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The women in prison film (or WiP film) is a subgenre of exploitation film that began in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. [1]Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse, typically by sadistic male or female prison wardens, guards and other inmates.