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Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 2007 Gisela Fosado, David Hopson and Janet Jakobsen, Guest Editors
Women, Prisons and Change
About this Issue
Introduction
About the Contributors

Part I: Visualizing Action
The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXI
Engendering Justice: Women, Prisons and Change
    
FILM A documentary based on the conference by Rebecca Haimowitz
    TRANSCRIPTS Full text from the event
Changing Minds:
The Impact of College in a Maximum Security Environment
    AUDIO A panel discussion
    With Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre and Jan Warren
    VIDEO What I Want My Words to Do To You
    A film by Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz and Gary Sunshine

Part II: Perspectives on the Death Penalty
Moratorium 2000: Putting an End to the Death Penalty
    VIDEO A lecture with Sister Helen Prejean
The Death Penalty: Dialectics of Innocence
    VIDEO A lecture with Angela Y. Davis

Part III: Visualizing Prison Life
Convicted: A Prison Diary
    VIDEO A film by Carol Jacobsen
    ESSAY Review by Rebecca Young
Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
    VIDEO A film by Ellen Spiro
    ESSAY Review by Kathryn R. Kent
Cruel and Unusual
    VIDEO A film by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt and Reid Williams
    ESSAY Review by Tamar Goelman
Strange Silence:
Portraits from Women's Prisons in Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky & New Mexico

    SLIDESHOW Photographs by Ava Berkofsky

Photograph by Ava Berkofsky
Photograph by Ava Berkofsky
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