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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]
[2] Pop Matters said that the book's vivid and intimate portrayals remind us that these women are human beings first, inmates second; somewhat disingenuously, the reviewer feigns wonder at Wally Lamb's name being in bold print on the cover since, although he contributed what the reviewer decides is a "rather inane preface", he did not write the ...
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.
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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Stanisic was in court for the hearing, while Simatovic watched by video link from a U.N. detention unit. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
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.
In Takhar Prison, Afghanistan, 40 women are locked behind bars together with their 34 children. They all share four cells. Through the prisoners’ own stories, the film explores how "moral crimes" are used to control women in Afghanistan. The film shows that women fleeing from their husbands get a longer punishment than those who have ...