The VA Scandal: How About a Reality Check? Recent reports from VA medical centers about their long waiting lists and subsequent efforts to hide those […]
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
You can read more about the problems of bail here. A few days ago I ran into a friend of mine – I’ll call her […]
On Memorial Day: “Remember the Ladies”
2016 Update: According to Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), “Currently, medical prosthetics for female amputees are provided as one-size-fits-all and are based on male anatomy. This […]
Incarceration by Any Other Name: A Return to the Cuckoo’s Nest?
The big news coming out of Los Angeles County – the county with the largest number of incarcerated people in the country – is the approval […]
Marissa Alexander and the Shot Not Heard Around the World
I’ve been thinking a lot today about Marissa Alexander, the woman who could be incarcerated for as long as sixty years for firing a single […]
Sex, race and prison’s violent double standard: Incarcerating men hurts women, too
This piece originally appeared in Salon in April, 2014 When I first met Gloria, over five years ago, she was in what she and others sometimes call “the […]
Our Prisons are Drugging Women
This piece originally appeared in Salon in August, 2013 A report issued earlier this month by the Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that doctors have […]