By Hans BennettAlternetJuly 21, 2009 As the incarceration rate of U.S. women skyrockets, an important book shines new light on…
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Tearing Down the Walls
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Cassandra ShaylorLeft Turn Magazine In the summer of 1974, women incarcerated…
HipMama Review of Resistance Behind Bars
By China Martens HipMama 2009 Lately I am so influenced by reading my Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind collaborator and…
No Holds Barred: An interview with prison-reform activist Victoria Law
By Kari LydersonBitchSpring 2009 In 1971 Attica prison uprising is well known, but many people—even those in activist scenes—haven’t heard…
Vikki Law in make/shift magazine
By Alexis Pauline Gumbsmake/shift magazine The less you think about your oppression, the more it grows. After a while, people…
Women Behind Bars
From Prison Photography “These analyses [of the prison system] – coupled with what I had seen firsthand – made sense,…
Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons: An Interview with Victoria Law
by Angola 3 News StaffTruthoutDecember 8, 2011 Activist and journalist Victoria Law is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The…
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind in Truthout
By Eleanor J Bader TruthoutNovember 16th, 2012 In many ways, the two kids I helped raise had great childhoods. There…
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: A Q&A with Victoria Law and China Martens
By Kjerstin JohnsonBitch MagazineDecember 2012 A Q&A with Victoria Law and China Martens Whether you organize at national conferences or around…
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind in HipMama
By Victoria Law and China MartensHipMama MagazineJune 2012 Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind began as a workshop at the 2006…