RESISTANCE BEHIND BARS/ THE STRUGGLES OF INCARCERATED WOMEN

As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, this collection of real-life prisoners' stories a nd analysis of the prison landscape as it is today documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarc erated in the United States. In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known a s the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hosta ge, and ...[Read more]