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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captivated audience packed Ticknor Lounge last night to listen to pleas for prison reform from three women who had themselves spent time behind bars...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Ex-Convicts Call For Prison Reform | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

Besides discussing their own experiences, the women said that now is a good time to fight for prison reform...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Ex-Convicts Call For Prison Reform | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

Davis, a Boston University graduate, said she had difficulty enrolling in any job training and education programs while in prison because she already had a college degree...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Ex-Convicts Call For Prison Reform | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...rhetoric of criminals distances us from people in prison and distracts us from pressing questions like what it means to live in a society that imprisons millions of people in response to social problems. Why is it that 80 percent of the women in prison reported incomes of less than $2,000 in the year before their arrest? Why are there so few jobs that are meaningful and pay a living wage? What makes people desperate enough to use and sell drugs? Why are millions of dollars being shifted from public spending on higher education to build a new prison...

Author: By Justin P. Steil, | Title: Punishing Prison Inmates | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...seems to me that prisons, especially women's prisons are mostly a way of racially based scape-goating. Prison as punishment legitimizes an inherently destructive institution, and distracts from more practical attempts to work with communities to address their problems, especially-growing economic inequities and continuing patriarchy and white supremacy. Justin P. Steil '00 is an Afro-American studies concentrator in Adams House...

Author: By Justin P. Steil, | Title: Punishing Prison Inmates | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

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