RESISTANCE BEHIND BARS
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, 2nd Edition VICTORIA LAW • INTRODUCTION BY LAURA WHITEHORN “This insightful book calls attention to the power, spirit, and courage of women who find themselves behind bars. By raising up their voices and stories, and by honoring their struggles, this book makes an important contribution to the growing movement to end prisons as we know them.” —Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
SEPT 2012
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LUCASVILLE
The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, 2nd Edition
nonfiction
In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles. Winner of the 2009 PASS Award, this updated and revised edition includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.
STAUGHTON LYND • FOREWORD BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL “Lucasville is one of the most powerful indictments of our ‘justice system’ I have ever read. What comes across is a litany of flaws deep in the system, and recognizably not unique to Lucasville. The detailed transcripts (yes, oral history!) give great power to the whole story.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States “Of interest to anyone who follows prison politics or the often enigmatic workings of the justice system.” —Library Journal
Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for 11 days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostaged correctional officer were murdered. Lucasville examines both the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the 11 days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in painted slogans on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes.
FEB 2011
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