Author: Catherine H. ConlyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Women's Prison Association
Author: Catherine H. ConlyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Annual Report of the Woman's Prison Association of New York, "the Isaac T. Hopper Home."
Author: Women's Prison Association of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Women's House of Detention
Author: Hugh RyanPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 9781645036654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.
Their Sisters' Keepers
Author: Estelle B. FreedmanPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America
Women in Prison
Author: Cyndi BanksPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576079309
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A concise survey of the treatment of jailed women in America since the early 1800s, their unique problems, the effect on their families, and the state of prisons today. Focusing on an often overlooked subject, this volume explores women's incarceration, from the first women-only prison to modern state-of-the-art facilities. It explores controversies, problems, and solutions, such as excessive discipline, the lack of training programs, sexual abuse, medical services, and visitation policies. The book also investigates key issues such as the background of inmates, the disproportionate number of African American and Hispanic prisoners because of the "war on drugs," and how women cope with the separation from their children and families. A full chapter is devoted to important people and events, from the first female jail keeper in 1822 to changing prison goals and the impact of feminism.
Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York
Author: Prison Association of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York for the Year ...
Author: Prison Association of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Women, Prison, & Crime
Author: Joycelyn M. PollockPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book takes a comprehensive look at women in America's prisons, covering the history of women's prisons, crime rates, and sentencing practices. It provides detailed descriptions of prisoner subcultures, programs, management and staff issues, and legal issues of female prisoners, while also expanding beyond U.S. soil to compare women's prisons in other countries.
In the Mix
Author: Barbara OwenPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438415273
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first book-length treatment of the nature of prison culture among women in thirty years, "In the Mix" describes the prison culture in a large California prison, from the point of view of the women themselves. Based on three years of study, including participant-observation, in-depth interviews and surveys, this book describes the daily life of the prison from a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on the gendered nature of its social organization, roles and normative frameworks. The title, "In the Mix," describes the contours of prison culture and its themes of trouble, programming and relationships. Common themes, such as the impact of substance use, limited economic opportunity, patriarchy, survival on the streets and in the prison, thread through the individual chapters. Owen argues that prison culture for women is tied directly to the role of women in society as well as a dynamic social structure that is shaped by the conditions of women's lives in prison and in the "free world."
Report of the Prison Association of New York
Author: Prison Association of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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