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New book: Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Vikki Law PM Press Now available In 1974, women imprisoned at New York?s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. Why do activists know about Attica but not the August Rebellion? Resistance Behind Bars documents collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. and challenges the reader to question why these instances and efforts have been ignored and why many assume that women do not organize to demand change. It fills the gap in the existing literature, which has focused mostly on the causes, conditions and effects of female imprisonment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).