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Women's Prison Book Project was founded in 1994 in Minneapolis, [7] and incorporated as a nonprofit in Minnesota in 2000. [8] The organization was initially located in the basement of a volunteer. Since then, it has been located at several places in Minneapolis, including Arise Bookstore, [9] Boneshaker Books, [10] [11] SOCO Commons, and Center ...
Chicago Books to Women in Prison (CBWP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit books to prisoners organization that provides free books to incarcerated women in state and federal prisons across the United States. On average, around 3,000 packages are sent per year, pulled from a collection that averages around 10,000 donated books.
For several years, Wally Lamb taught writing skills to inmates at the York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Niantic, Connecticut. The book contains personal stories written by the inmates dealing with their lives. Most were sexually, physically, or mentally abused, and came from impoverished backgrounds.
The old York County prison has sat deteriorating on Chestnut Street in York for almost half a century without finding a new purpose. Through the years, many ideas to repurpose this sturdy ...
PIERRE – The state’s new women’s prison may well be full when it opens, South Dakota’s corrections secretary said this week, a reality largely attributable to the prevalence of drug abuse ...
Reflections on a Crime (also known as Reflections in the Dark) is a 1994 American prison thriller written and directed by Jon Purdy.Mimi Rogers stars as a woman in the final hours of Death Row retelling the murder of her husband that she was incarcerated for.
Caged Heat (also known as Renegade Girls) is a 1974 American women in prison film. It was written and directed by Jonathan Demme (in his directorial debut) for New World Pictures, headed by Roger Corman. The film stars Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Erica Gavin, Ella Reid, Rainbeaux Smith, and Barbara Steele.
Jailed for Freedom discusses how women picketing the White House were jailed and depicts the political and social tensions of that time. Stevens shares accounts of beatings, police brutality, and cruelty faced by women protesters, as well as the injustice faced by women in prison for standing up for their rights. [2]