Interrupted Life
Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2010
480 pages
978-0-520-94456-5 (ISBN)
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Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system.
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Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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01/2010
1st Edition
University of California Press
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Rickie Solinger is the author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Rose v. Wade, among other books. She is the editor of Abortion Wars (UC Press). Paula C. Johnson is Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and the author of Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison. Attorney Martha L. Raimon has directed the Incarcerated Mothers Law Project at the Women's Prison Association and is now Senior Associate at Center for the Study of Social Policy. Tina Reynolds is Co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH) and adjunct lecturer at York College/CUNY. Ruby C. Tapia is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University and the author of Breeding Ghosts: Race, Death, and the Maternal in Visual Culture.
Content
Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
Ruby C. Tapia
Part One. Defining the Problem
1. Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Julia Sudbury
2. Glossary of Terms
Tina Reynolds
3. The Long Shadow of Prison: My Messy Journey through Fear, Silence, and Racism toward Abolition
Kay Whitlock
4. Unpeeling the Mask
Elizabeth Leslie
5. Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights
San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
6. United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons
7. Being in Prison
Joanne Archibald
8. Wearing Blues
Kinnari Jivani
Part Two. Being a Mother from Inside
9. Get on the Bus: Mobilizing Communities across California to Unite Children with Their Parents in Prison
Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith
10. Do I Have to Stand for This?
Kimberly Burke
11. Out of Sight, NOT Out of Mind: Important Information for Incarcerated Parents Whose Children Are in Foster Care
Children of Incarcerated Parents Program, NYC Administration for Children's Services
12. The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Children of Incarcerated Parents
Arlene F. Lee, Philip M. Genty, and Mimi Laver
Child Welfare League of America
13. ASFA, TPR, My Life, My Children, My Motherhood
Carole E.
14. The Birthing Program in Washington State
Tabitha and Christy Hall
15. Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Loss in Prison: A Personal Story
Kebby Warner
16. What the Parenting Program at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Has Meant to Me
Mary Alley, A.{ths}D., and C.{ths}S.
17. The Storybook Project at Bedford Hills
Beth Falk, June Benson, Amorel Beyor, and Alte
18. A Trilogy of Journeys
Kathy Boudin
Part Three. Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside
19. Untitled
Celeste "Jazz" Carrington
20. Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression with Safety
Brenda V. Smith
21. Who Said Women Can't Get Along?
Elizabeth Leslie
22. Sorry
Tina Reynolds
23. The Chase
Holli Hampton
24. Why? A Letter to My Lover
Sheena M. King
25. Gender, Sexuality, and Family Kinship Networks
Juanita Díaz-Cotto
26. Getting Free
Amy Stout
27. My Name Is June Martinez
28. King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations
Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention
29. Mother
Mayra Collado
30. Daddy Black Man
Cassandra Adams
31. Watershed
Kinnari Jivani
Part Four. Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside
32. Lit by Each Other's Light:Women's Writing at Cook County Jail
Ann Fowell Stanford
33. Tuesday SOUL
Kinnari Jivani
34. "I lived that book!" Reading behind Bars
Megan Sweeney
35. Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project on College in Prison
Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Cheryl "Missy"Wilkins, Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debra Upegui
36. Imagining the Self and Other: Women Narrate Prison Life across Cultures
Lynne Haney and András Tapolcai
37. My Art
Kinnari Jivani
38. My Window
Michele Molina
39. They Talked
Kinnari Jivani
40. I Never Knew
Darlene Dixon
41. Wise Women: Critical Citizenship in a Women's Prison
Tanya Erzen
42. Women of Wisdom: An Alternative Community of Faith
Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith
43. Chain of Command
Kinnari Jivani
Part Five. Struggling for Health Care
44. Hep C, Pap Smears, and Basic Care: Justice Now and the Right to Family
Johanna Hoffman
45. A Dazzling Tale of Two Teeth
Tracy Lynn Hardin
46. Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door
Rachel Roth
47. The Death of Luisa Montalvo
Nancy Stoller
48. Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities
RIPPD
49. A Plea for Rosemary
Beverly (Chopper) Henry
50. The Thing Called Love Virus
Tiffany Jackson
51. Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls
Residents of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
52. Working to Improve Health Care for Incarcerated Women
Sheila R. Enders
53. Women in Prison Project Fact Sheets
Correctional Association of New York
Part Six. Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced
54. Reading Gender in September 11 Detentions: Zihada: The Journey from a Young Pakistani Wife to an Anthrax Suspect
Irum Shiekh
55. Victim or Criminal: The Experiences of a Human-Trafficking Survivor in the U.S. Immigration System
Leticia M. Saucedo
56. Detention of Women Asylum Seekers in the United States: A Disgrace
Marleine Bastien and Rosta Telfort
57. "Did you see no potential in me?" The Story of Women Serving Long Sentences in Prison
Kathy Boudin
58. Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
59. The Longertimers/Insiders Activist Group at Tutwiler Prison for Women
Erline Bibbs
60. The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States
through the Experiences of Women
Capital Punishment Project, Women's Rights Project, National Prison Project, National Criminal Justice Program, and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
Part Seven. Struggling for Rights
61. Incarcerated Young Mothers' Bill of Rights: From a Vision to a Policy at San Francisco Juvenile Hall
Sophia Sanchez
62. Slaving in Prison: A Three-Part Indictment
shawnna d.,the Fire Inside Editorial Collective, and Edaleen Smith
63. Freedom Gon' Come
Cassandra Adams
64. Reducing the Number of People in California Women's Prisons: How "Gender-Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, and Families
Californians United for a Responsible Budget
65. The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement
Cynthia Chandler
66. Free Battered Women
Linda Field and Andrea Bible
67. Life's Imprint
Michele Molina
68. Testimony of Kemba Smith before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
69. Keeping Families Connected: Women Organizing for Telephone Justice in the Face of Corporate-State Greed
Lauren Melodia and Annette Warren Dickerson
70. Prick Poison
Kinnari Jivani
71. The Prison-Industrial Complex in Indigenous California
Stormy Ogden
72. A Prison Journal
Tammica Summers
Part Eight. Being Out
73. A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
Lorrie Sue McClary
74. Life on the Outside-of What?
Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins
75. California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban
All of Us or None
76. Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco
All of Us or None
77. Only with Time
Tina Reynolds
78. Child of a Convicted Felon
Anonymous
79. Mothering after Imprisonment
Margaret Oot Hayes
80. Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration
Martha L. Raimon, Luz Alvarez, Sunshine Brooks, Casey Deas, and Lorrayne Patterson
81. The First Time Is a Mistake . . .
Patricia Zimmerman
82. What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
Freda Swinney
83. Alternatives: ATI in New York City
Alexandra Bell and Leche
84. Violent Interruptions
Noelle Paley and Joshua Price
85. Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and A New Way of Life
Setsu Shigematsu, Gwen D'Arcangelis, and Melissa Burch
86. Booking It beyond the Big House
Jean Trounstine
87. Being Out of Prison
Joanne Archibald
Contributors
Index
Ruby C. Tapia
Part One. Defining the Problem
1. Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Julia Sudbury
2. Glossary of Terms
Tina Reynolds
3. The Long Shadow of Prison: My Messy Journey through Fear, Silence, and Racism toward Abolition
Kay Whitlock
4. Unpeeling the Mask
Elizabeth Leslie
5. Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights
San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
6. United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons
7. Being in Prison
Joanne Archibald
8. Wearing Blues
Kinnari Jivani
Part Two. Being a Mother from Inside
9. Get on the Bus: Mobilizing Communities across California to Unite Children with Their Parents in Prison
Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith
10. Do I Have to Stand for This?
Kimberly Burke
11. Out of Sight, NOT Out of Mind: Important Information for Incarcerated Parents Whose Children Are in Foster Care
Children of Incarcerated Parents Program, NYC Administration for Children's Services
12. The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Children of Incarcerated Parents
Arlene F. Lee, Philip M. Genty, and Mimi Laver
Child Welfare League of America
13. ASFA, TPR, My Life, My Children, My Motherhood
Carole E.
14. The Birthing Program in Washington State
Tabitha and Christy Hall
15. Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Loss in Prison: A Personal Story
Kebby Warner
16. What the Parenting Program at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Has Meant to Me
Mary Alley, A.{ths}D., and C.{ths}S.
17. The Storybook Project at Bedford Hills
Beth Falk, June Benson, Amorel Beyor, and Alte
18. A Trilogy of Journeys
Kathy Boudin
Part Three. Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside
19. Untitled
Celeste "Jazz" Carrington
20. Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression with Safety
Brenda V. Smith
21. Who Said Women Can't Get Along?
Elizabeth Leslie
22. Sorry
Tina Reynolds
23. The Chase
Holli Hampton
24. Why? A Letter to My Lover
Sheena M. King
25. Gender, Sexuality, and Family Kinship Networks
Juanita Díaz-Cotto
26. Getting Free
Amy Stout
27. My Name Is June Martinez
28. King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations
Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention
29. Mother
Mayra Collado
30. Daddy Black Man
Cassandra Adams
31. Watershed
Kinnari Jivani
Part Four. Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside
32. Lit by Each Other's Light:Women's Writing at Cook County Jail
Ann Fowell Stanford
33. Tuesday SOUL
Kinnari Jivani
34. "I lived that book!" Reading behind Bars
Megan Sweeney
35. Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project on College in Prison
Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Cheryl "Missy"Wilkins, Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debra Upegui
36. Imagining the Self and Other: Women Narrate Prison Life across Cultures
Lynne Haney and András Tapolcai
37. My Art
Kinnari Jivani
38. My Window
Michele Molina
39. They Talked
Kinnari Jivani
40. I Never Knew
Darlene Dixon
41. Wise Women: Critical Citizenship in a Women's Prison
Tanya Erzen
42. Women of Wisdom: An Alternative Community of Faith
Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith
43. Chain of Command
Kinnari Jivani
Part Five. Struggling for Health Care
44. Hep C, Pap Smears, and Basic Care: Justice Now and the Right to Family
Johanna Hoffman
45. A Dazzling Tale of Two Teeth
Tracy Lynn Hardin
46. Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door
Rachel Roth
47. The Death of Luisa Montalvo
Nancy Stoller
48. Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities
RIPPD
49. A Plea for Rosemary
Beverly (Chopper) Henry
50. The Thing Called Love Virus
Tiffany Jackson
51. Bill of Health Rights for Incarcerated Girls
Residents of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
52. Working to Improve Health Care for Incarcerated Women
Sheila R. Enders
53. Women in Prison Project Fact Sheets
Correctional Association of New York
Part Six. Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced
54. Reading Gender in September 11 Detentions: Zihada: The Journey from a Young Pakistani Wife to an Anthrax Suspect
Irum Shiekh
55. Victim or Criminal: The Experiences of a Human-Trafficking Survivor in the U.S. Immigration System
Leticia M. Saucedo
56. Detention of Women Asylum Seekers in the United States: A Disgrace
Marleine Bastien and Rosta Telfort
57. "Did you see no potential in me?" The Story of Women Serving Long Sentences in Prison
Kathy Boudin
58. Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
59. The Longertimers/Insiders Activist Group at Tutwiler Prison for Women
Erline Bibbs
60. The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States
through the Experiences of Women
Capital Punishment Project, Women's Rights Project, National Prison Project, National Criminal Justice Program, and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
Part Seven. Struggling for Rights
61. Incarcerated Young Mothers' Bill of Rights: From a Vision to a Policy at San Francisco Juvenile Hall
Sophia Sanchez
62. Slaving in Prison: A Three-Part Indictment
shawnna d.,the Fire Inside Editorial Collective, and Edaleen Smith
63. Freedom Gon' Come
Cassandra Adams
64. Reducing the Number of People in California Women's Prisons: How "Gender-Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, and Families
Californians United for a Responsible Budget
65. The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement
Cynthia Chandler
66. Free Battered Women
Linda Field and Andrea Bible
67. Life's Imprint
Michele Molina
68. Testimony of Kemba Smith before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
69. Keeping Families Connected: Women Organizing for Telephone Justice in the Face of Corporate-State Greed
Lauren Melodia and Annette Warren Dickerson
70. Prick Poison
Kinnari Jivani
71. The Prison-Industrial Complex in Indigenous California
Stormy Ogden
72. A Prison Journal
Tammica Summers
Part Eight. Being Out
73. A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
Lorrie Sue McClary
74. Life on the Outside-of What?
Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins
75. California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban
All of Us or None
76. Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco
All of Us or None
77. Only with Time
Tina Reynolds
78. Child of a Convicted Felon
Anonymous
79. Mothering after Imprisonment
Margaret Oot Hayes
80. Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration
Martha L. Raimon, Luz Alvarez, Sunshine Brooks, Casey Deas, and Lorrayne Patterson
81. The First Time Is a Mistake . . .
Patricia Zimmerman
82. What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
Freda Swinney
83. Alternatives: ATI in New York City
Alexandra Bell and Leche
84. Violent Interruptions
Noelle Paley and Joshua Price
85. Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and A New Way of Life
Setsu Shigematsu, Gwen D'Arcangelis, and Melissa Burch
86. Booking It beyond the Big House
Jean Trounstine
87. Being Out of Prison
Joanne Archibald
Contributors
Index
