$190 and Counting: Bail Blog #3 Click here for the story of Ginger’s arrest and my experience bailing her out: The New Price of Freedom: […]
Civil Commitment: If You Build It They Will Come
Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 123, Section 35 permits the court to involuntarily commit to an inpatient substance abuse treatment someone whose alcohol or drug use […]
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 […]
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 […]