Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States Book

Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of
Incarcerated Women in the United States

Ruby C. Tapia Part One. Defining the Problem

1. Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization, and the Prison-
Industrial Complex Julia Sudbury

2. Glossary of Terms Tina Reynolds

3. The Long Shadow of Prison: My Messy Journey through Fear, Silence, and Racism toward Abolition Kay Whitlock

4. Unpeeling the Mask Elizabeth Leslie

5. Children of
Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights San Francisco Children of
Incarcerated Parents Partnership

6. United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons

7. Being in Prison Joanne Archibald

8. Wearing Blues Kinnari Jivani

Part Two. Being a Mother from
Inside

9. Get on the Bus: Mobilizing Communities across California to Unite Children with Their Parents in Prison Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith

10. Do I Have to Stand for This?
Kimberly Burke

11. Out of Sight, NOT Out of Mind: Important
Information for
Incarcerated Parents Whose Children Are in Foster Care Children of
Incarcerated Parents Program, NYC Administration for Children's Services

12. The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Children of
Incarcerated Parents Arlene F. Lee, Philip M. Genty, and Mimi Laver Child Welfare League of America

13. ASFA, TPR, My Life, My Children, My Motherhood Carole E.

14. The Birthing Program in Washington State Tabitha and Christy Hall

15. Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Loss in Prison: A Personal Story Kebby Warner

16. What the Parenting Program at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Has Meant to Me Mary Alley, A.{ths}D., and C.{ths}S.

17. The Storybook Project at Bedford Hills Beth Falk, June Benson, Amorel Beyor, and Alte

18. A Trilogy of Journeys Kathy Boudin

Part Three.
Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
Inside

19. Untitled Celeste "Jazz" Carrington

20. Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression with Safety Brenda V. Smith

21. Who Said Women Can't Get Along?
Elizabeth Leslie

22. Sorry Tina Reynolds

23. The Chase Holli Hampton

24. Why? A Letter to My Lover Sheena M. King

25. Gender, Sexuality, and Family Kinship Networks Juanita Díaz-Cotto

26. Getting Free Amy Stout

27. My Name Is June Martinez

28. King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention

29. Mother Mayra Collado

30. Daddy Black Man Cassandra Adams

31. Watershed Kinnari Jivani

Part Four. Creating and Maintaining
Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life
Inside

32. Lit by Each Other's Light:Women's Writing at Cook County Jail Ann Fowell Stanford

33. Tuesday SOUL Kinnari Jivani

34. "I lived that book!" Reading behind Bars Megan Sweeney

35. Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project on College in Prison Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Cheryl "Missy"Wilkins, Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debra Upegui

36. Imagining the Self and Other: Women Narrate Prison Life across Cultures Lynne Haney and András Tapolcai

37. My Art Kinnari Jivani

38. My Window Michele Molina

39. They Talked Kinnari Jivani

40. I Never Knew Darlene Dixon

41. Wise Women: Critical Citizenship in a Women's Prison Tanya Erzen

42. Women of Wisdom: An Alternative Community of Faith Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith

43. Chain of Command Kinnari Jivani

Part Five. Struggling for Health Care

44. Hep C, Pap Smears, and Basic Care: Justice Now and the Right to Family Johanna Hoffman

45. A Dazzling Tale of Two Teeth Tracy Lynn Hardin

46. Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door Rachel Roth

47. The Death of Luisa Montalvo Nancy Stoller

48. Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities RIPPD

49. A Plea for Rosemary Beverly (Chopper) Henry

50. The Thing Called Love Virus Tiffany Jackson

51. Bill of Health Rights for
Incarcerated Girls Residents of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center

52. Working to Improve Health Care for
Incarcerated Women Sheila R. Enders

53. Women in Prison Project Fact Sheets Correctional Association of New York

Part Six. Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced

54. Reading Gender in September 11 Detentions: Zihada: The Journey from a Young Pakistani Wife to an Anthrax Suspect Irum Shiekh

55. Victim or Criminal: The Experiences of a Human-Trafficking Survivor in the U.S. Immigration System Leticia M. Saucedo

56. Detention of Women Asylum Seekers in the United States: A Disgrace Marleine Bastien and Rosta Telfort

57. "Did you see no potential in me?" The Story of Women Serving Long Sentences in Prison Kathy Boudin

58. Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

59. The Longertimers/
Insiders Activist Group at Tutwiler Prison for Women Erline Bibbs

60. The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States through the Experiences of Women Capital Punishment Project, Women's Rights Project, National Prison Project, National Criminal Justice Program, and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women

Part Seven. Struggling for Rights

61.
Incarcerated Young Mothers' Bill of Rights: From a Vision to a Policy at San Francisco Juvenile Hall Sophia Sanchez

62. Slaving in Prison: A Three-Part
Indictment shawnna d.,the Fire
Inside Editorial Collective, and Edaleen Smith

63. Freedom Gon' Come Cassandra Adams

64. Reducing the Number of People in California Women's Prisons: How "Gender-Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, and Families Californians United for a Responsible Budget

65. The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement Cynthia Chandler

66. Free Battered Women Linda Field and Andrea Bible

67. Life's Imprint Michele Molina

68. Testimony of Kemba Smith before the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

69. Keeping Families Connected: Women Organizing for Telephone Justice in the Face of Corporate-State Greed Lauren Melodia and Annette Warren Dickerson

70. Prick Poison Kinnari Jivani

71. The Prison-
Industrial Complex in
Indigenous California Stormy Ogden

72. A Prison Journal Tammica Summers

Part Eight. Being Out

73. A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After Lorrie Sue McClary

74. Life on the Outside-of What?
Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins

75. California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban All of Us or None

76. Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco All of Us or None

77. Only with Time Tina Reynolds

78. Child of a Convicted Felon Anonymous

79. Mothering after Imprisonment Margaret Oot Hayes

80. Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after
Incarceration Martha L. Raimon, Luz Alvarez, Sunshine Brooks, Casey Deas, and Lorrayne Patterson

81. The First Time Is a Mistake . . .
Patricia Zimmerman

82. What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside Freda Swinney

83. Alternatives: ATI in New York City Alexandra Bell and Leche

84. Violent
Interruptions Noelle Paley and Joshua Price

85. Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and A New Way of Life Setsu Shigematsu, Gwen D'Arcangelis, and Melissa Burch

86. Booking It beyond the Big House Jean Trounstine

87. Being Out of Prison

Joanne Archibald Contributors
Index