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Barbra Perez is a transgender woman who had been living as a woman for 15 years when she was sent to a male prison and placed in solitary confinement, supposedly for her own protection. She says that she was detained to fill a contractual quota of inmates ICE had with the prison.
In her essay "Always was always will be," [1] Indigenous writer, activist and historian Jackie Huggins responds to Australian historian Bain Attwood's [2] "deconstruction of Aboriginality" in his analysis [3] of Sally Morgan's My Place, in addition to identifying problems that Huggins has with the book itself. Here is a brief excerpt from ...
When she first came to prison, women old enough to be her mother told her she was cute and promised to take care of her. “They rub on you and stuff, I can’t stand it,” she said. In the seven months before her 18th birthday, prison records show that Jamie was housed with at least three adult cellmates, including one in her 50s who had a ...
She was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 2018, after serving 21 years in prison, she was released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville, after President Donald Trump granted her clemency, thereby commuting her sentence, effective ...
The wonderful Raymond Carver story “Neighbors” perfectly evoked the strange out-of-body feeling that can come from occupying another person’s home when they’re not in it — the transient ...
Tanya McDowell is an American woman who served five years in prison after a plea deal related to falsifying her residence to change school districts. McDowell and her six-year-old son were homeless, McDowell didn't have an address to get her son into a good school, so she lied on admission papers to ensure her son could have an education.
More than 130 women who were formerly inmates at prisons for women in California have filed suit, saying guards sexually abused them. 'Every woman's worst nightmare': Lawsuit alleges widespread ...
Raimondo Montecuccoli wrote his aphorisms on the art of war in a Stettin prison (c. 1639–1641). [6] John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) while in jail. Marquis de Sade wrote prolifically during an 11-year period in the Bastille, churning out 11 novels, 16 novellas, two volumes of essays, a diary and 20 plays.