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Book Review: Beyond Attica: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Behind Bars

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Beyond Attica: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Behind Bars By Hans Bennett, AlterNet. Posted July 21, 2009. As the incarceration rate of U.S. women skyrockets, an important book shines new light on the struggles of women prisoners. "When I was 15, my friends started going to jail," says Victoria Law, a native New Yorker. "Chinatown's gangs were recruiting in the high schools in Queens and, faced with the choice of stultifying days learning nothing in overcrowded classrooms or easy money, many of my friends had dropped out to join a gang." "One by one," Law recalls, "they landed in Rikers Island, an entire island in New York City devoted to pretrial detainment for those who can not afford bail." Law shares this and other recollections in her new book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).