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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 ...
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.
[2] [5] Most of the women prisoners were either killed or took their own lives, while others were exiled or became insane. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Only a handful of the women prisoners survived – fewer than ten according to the Association of Women Victims of War , an organisation which works with women survivors and campaigns for the prosecution of the ...
[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 ...
Serbian women and girls were raped and tortured in Bosniak-run brothels in Sarajevo. [60] In Doboj, Bosnian Serb forces separated the females from the men and then facilitated the rape of some women by their own male family members. Women were questioned about male relatives in the city, and one woman's fourteen-year-old son was forced to rape her.
The decision by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution ...