Women, Prisons and Change

IN THIS ISSUE

Introduction
by Gisela Fosado

About this Issue

Recommended Reading

Online Resources

PART 1
Visualizing Action

The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXI
Engendering Justice: Women, Prisons and Change

• A documentary based on the conference by Rebecca Haimowitz
• Full text from the event

Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum Security Environment

• A panel discussion
  With Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre and Jan Warren
• What I Want My Words to Do To You
  A film by Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz and Gary Sunshine

PART 2
Perspectives on the Death Penalty

Moratorium 2000: Putting an End to the Death Penalty
A lecture with Sister Helen Prejean

The Death Penalty: Dialectics of Innocence
A lecture with Angela Y. Davis

PART 3
Visualizing Prison Life

Convicted: A Prison Diary
A film by Carol Jacobsen
Review by Rebecca Young

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
A film by Ellen Spiro
Review by Kathryn R. Kent

Cruel and Unusual
A film by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt and Reid Williams
Review by Tamar Goelman

Strange Silence:
Portraits from Women’s Prisons in Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky & New Mexico
Photographs by Ava Berkofsky