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#womensstories: Pregnant Behind Bars: How Expectant Mothers’ Lives are Under Threat
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / October 26, 2015For more in this series, see In These Times. Write-up below from msmagazine.Imagine being pregnant and hungry. Always hungry. Now imagine being hungry and locked in a room, unable to access food, for ...
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#research: women, particularly women of colour, bear costs of mass incarceration
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 17, 2015A groundbreaking new report (from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design) surveyed former prisoners and their families in 14 states* and found that the tr...
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#research: The Juvenile Justice System is Failing Girls
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 28, 2015This piece is about girls in the US but the same issues apply here in Britain. Young girls who come into contact with the criminal justice/ juvenile justice system here are also more likely than boys ...
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#womenslives: Prisons that withhold menstrual pads humiliate women and violate basic rights
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 28, 2015Everyone laughed when Piper Chapman emerged from the shower during the first season of Orange Is the New Black with bootleg shoes made of maxi pads – and inmates do sometimes waste precious resources ...
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#womensstories: ““Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized…”
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 16, 2015“Girls’ behavioral reaction to sexual abuse and trauma is criminalized, reinforcing the sexual abuse to prison pipeline…. The most common crimes for which girls are arrested — including running away, ...
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#womensstories: Girls’ stories: the sexual abuse to prison pipeline
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 13, 2015From the report: Sasha was raped as a high school student. When news of the rape was circulated in social media, she was ridiculed by her classmates, making it impossible for her to feel safe at scho...
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#womenslives: Before You Watch “Orange is the New Black,” Here Are 5 Facts To Know about Pregnancy in Prison
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / June 11, 2015Season three of Orange is the New Black is (almost) here! While creator Jenji Kohan and the whole cast have been pretty tight-lipped about what we can expect this season, which starts streaming on Net...
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#research: New Study: 1 in 4 Women Have Family In Prison (US)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 29, 2015It gets worse. 1 in 2 Black women have an incarcerated family member.The Essie Justice Group writes:On May 20, 2015, the Du Bois Review published Racial Inequalities in Connectedness to Imprisoned Ind...
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#research: experiencing very long term imprisonment from young adulthood: identity, adaptation and penal legitimacy
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 5, 2013Haven’t had a chance to read all of this page yet (it’s bookmarked for later) but wanted to flag it now. We still don’t know a great deal about experiences of long-term imprisonment (and its effects) ...
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#research: Violent crime rate in US same as it was in 1968; prison system has grown by over 500 percent
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 9, 2013On politifact: In recent years, elected officials, criminologists and others have examined ways to decrease the number of people sitting in U.S. prisons. For some officials, it’s a matter of money. I...
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#research: Trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 17, 2013A University of Cambridge Study has found that trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons. Females who have been trafficked into the UK to work as prostitutes, drug mules or domestic serv...
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#research: Overweight women more likely to experience weight-based discrimination in court of law
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 16, 2013The stereotypes which seem to underlie this trend are horrendous.From feministing:A new study, including a jury and mock trial, shows that overweight women are more likely to be penalized in the court...
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#research: It’s time for the demise of capital punishment in the US
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 14, 2013Inmate have spent more than an hour on gurneys during Ohio executions, waiting for officials to find useable veins. Photograph: Kiichiro Sato/APIt’s 2012 and still we’re arguing for the abolition of...
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