Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night a young woman hung herself in the max-unit, many others cried...She was a frightened and confused person who needed help. Instead she was locked in a room, the door shut. Put in seclusion. She was a new mother...The officers couldn't or didn't save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book...
...many are guarded by men. Sexual abuse of prisoners by guards is common. Many prisons violate international standards requiring adequate health care free of charge. In "Not Part of My Sentence: Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody" (March, 1999), Amnesty International reports that last year a woman in an American prison was neglected by guards until she bled to death...
Amnesty also describes an incident where a pregnant woman was not allowed to see an obstetrician during her imprisonment. Even as she complained "I'm constantly having headaches, stomach cramps, and can't sleep. I'm very scared for my baby and myself...Please help me! Help my baby!" the doctor refused to see her. All essentials for a healthy pregnancy are missing in prison: nutritious food, exercise, sanitary conditions, prenatal care. Pregnant women are sometimes shackled with waist chains that can injure the fetus and ankle chains that increase the likelihood of falling. A 1985 California Department of Health...
...comes quickly. There is no support for women recently released. With housing costs rising and a felony conviction barring them from public housing, many women end up in shelters, still expected to support families and they easily relapse into substance abuse and end up back in prison. As a woman recently released in Massachusetts said, "We're set up to fail, given nowhere to go. It's a big setup and they know what they're doing--it's their job, it's their paycheck." I personally heard a guard say without hesitation, "It's job security...
Black, white; man, woman; father, child: questions of identity blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency...