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 […]