Established in 1997, Beyondmedia’s Women & Prison program has had terrific impacts in the lives of women affected by the prison industrial complex.
— With Your Support —
We reach incarcerated women facing state violence
“Nineteen-year-old Terra K. screamed, pounded on the door and asked for the nurse in the Dubuque County Jail in Iowa, only to give birth alone in her cell. Afterward she asked, ‘How does somebody have a baby in jail without anybody noticing?’”
— Pregnant, in Prison and Denied Care, by Rachel Roth
We reach activists, academics and policy makers who can help
“While it seems clear that sentencing policies that disregard families and children and ignore level of culpability are more likely to harm women, these policies do not violate current legal ‘anti-discrimination’ standards.’”
—Equality at the Price of Justice, by Traci Schlesinger
