Spotlight on Incarcerated Women: Conditions, Profiteering and Resistance NYC Bookstore event September 17
If you will be in
http://women.prisonersresistance.org/node/21
Wednesday, September 17th!
Spotlight on Incarcerated Women: Conditions, Profiteering and Resistance
a joint benefit for Prison Legal News and Books Through Bars--NYC
Wed, Sept 17th, 7 pm
The number of women in prison has nearly tripled within the past 2 decades.
Join investigative journalist and author of Women Behind Bars Silja Talvi,
founding editor of Prison Legal News (and co-editor of Prison Profiteers) Paul
Wright, former drug war prisoner Yraida Guanipa, and Books Through Bars
co-founder (and author of the forthcoming Resistance Behind Bars) Victoria Law
for a discussion on who profits from this increase, conditions
inside and resistance both inside and out.
Paul Wright is the editor and co-founder of Prison Legal News, the longest
publishing independent prisoner rights magazine in
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The Warehousing of
from Mass Imprisonment. Both during and since his 17-year incarceration, he has
successfully litigated a wide variety of censorship and public records issues
against prison systems around the country both pro se, as a plaintiff, on
behalf of other prisoners and on behalf of Prison Legal News.
Silja J.A. Talvi is an investigative journalist, essayist, and author of Women
Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the
appeared in nearly a dozen book anthologies, including Prison Profiteers, and
in over 75 publications nationwide. Silja is the recipient of 12 regional
awards for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional
Journalists (in the
justice reporting from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; and a
national award for immigration reporting from the New American Media
Foundation.
Yraida L. Guanipa was sentenced to nearly 11 years as a first-time non-violent
offender under the federal sentencing guidelines. While incarcerated, she
fought for programs to maintain family bonds and abolish the prison/slave labor
system. She was released in 2006. She continues fighting for more just systems
and is working to reestablish the bonds with her now-teenage sons.
Victoria Law (facilitator) has been involved with prisoner issues for the past
15 years and has focused specifically on incarcerated women's issues since
2000. She is the co-founder of Books Through Bars—NYC and the editor of the
zine "Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison." She is the author
of the forthcoming Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women.
Bluestockings Bookstore
www.bluestockings.com
212-777-6028
$5 to $10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.
F or V train to
Paul Wright, Editor
Prison Legal News
802-257-1342
pwright@prisonlegalnews.org
www.prisonlegalnews.org
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1 comment:
I wish you success in this effort against society degradation. May some congressmen and senators choose to fight eagerly in concrete projects for a better America and humanization of society.
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