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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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#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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#todayin: racism: women in prison: racial bias in Australia and the US
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 26, 2015While mass incarceration is a dominant social issue involving men, it is also increasingly affecting women of colour. Black women are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white women, and H...
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