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Freelance writer & editor. Author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. Co-author of Prison by Any Other Name (New Press 2020).
Aug 5, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
My latest from @truthout: 17 States & DC Have Stopped Reporting Active COVID Cases Behind Bars truthout.org/articles/17-st… In mid-July, CA Institution for Women had 169 active cases among incarcerated people; across CA, prisons had found over 1,000 new cases. CA remains one of the few state prison systems that continues to regularly test its incarcerated population.
Mar 8, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
For #InternationalWomensDay, a short thread highlighting some efforts by formerly and currently incarcerated women to dismantle mass incarceration. First, in Atlanta, formerly incarcerated women pushed to close an 1100-bed jail:
zora.medium.com/these-formerly… Trans women imprisoned in CA men's prisons fight for their safety--both individually and collectively truthout.org/articles/calif…