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The Women's Prison Book Project (WPBP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that provides free books to women, trans, and nonbinary people who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons across the United States. [1] [2] [3] Established in 199r, the organization is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [4]
These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established, although many have had short life-spans.
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A total of 66 women have been killed by partners or husbands since 2000 in Kosovo, a nation of 2 million, while only one perpetrator has been sentenced to life in prison, official statistics show.
Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [1] [2] While the organization is based in Massachusetts, it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. [3] The program receives letters from people in prison asking for specific titles or ...
Among these was a Bosnian Muslim women in her fifties, who in February 1993, had been taken hostage by an elderly Bosnian Serb woman whose daughter had been imprisoned at Silos. The Bosnian Muslim woman was set free on 24 January 1996, having languished in the basement of her captor's family home for almost three years. [ 23 ]
Against Their Will (Hornblum's book), a research book, Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Allen M. Hornblum; Against Their Will: Women in Prison, a 1994 TV movie by Judith Light; Against Their Will, a 2002 Winston-Salem Journal documentary about eugenics in North Carolina
Vilina Vlas was a rape camp active during the Bosnian War.It served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak civilian prisoners were beaten, tortured and murdered and women were raped by prison guards during the Višegrad massacres in the Bosnian War of the 1990s.