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