Women prisoners.

  • Perspectives on criminal justice: Women in and after prison

    Perspectives on Criminal Justice for August 19, 1981, likely the first episode. Guest is Sister Mary Nerney, Executive Director of Project Green Hope, a residence for women who have been recently released from prison.  Host is Tom O’Connor, and they discuss women in prison and prison reform.

  • Voices from within: interviews with women serving long-term sentences in prison

    Interviews with women serving long-term sentences at the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills, and are part of the group Long-termers Committee of the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills. They are fighting for Assembly Bill A 7017A and Senate Bill S5036A, legislation which would make it possible for prisoners serving…

  • I was first locked up at fourteen / produced by Frances Emley.

    A documentary on the physical and emotional reality of incarceration, profiling a young woman whose father had her locked up at the age of fourteen for “incorrigibility.” The “incorrigibility” stemmed from her work with young Chicano migrant families, of which her father disapproved. Since his beatings couldn’t set her straight, the state tried solitary confinement…

  • Crossroads / produced by Elizabeth Perez-Luna.

    Ongoing weekly radio newsmagazine focusing upon minority issues and broader issues from a minority perspective. Produced by independent producers and includes commentaries and reviews by established critics, artists, and writers.|CROSSROADS / produced by Elizabeth Perez-Luna. – Ongoing weekly radio newsmagazine focusing upon minority issues and broader issues from a minority perspective. Produced by independent producers…

  • Model prison : an interview with Yvone Pappano / interviewed by Bonnie Bellow.

    Leader of a sit-in strike at Clinton Correctional Institute for Women discusses the protest.

  • The female prisoner / Joyce Pleasha and Isetta Haight ; produced by Elaine Douglass.

    A talk and discussion by two former women prisoners, Joyce Pleasha and Isetta Haight. The talk was recorded at a conference sponsored by the National Organization for Women on July 26, 1973. The program was produced by Elaine Douglass. Note: Contains sensitive language.

  • Women’s liberation: women in prison

    Discussion of the life and conditions in women’s correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society. The correspondence was authored by Jane Kennedy, who…

  • Women as political prisoners / produced by Oya LeRose and Lisa Rudman.

    Documentary made from interviews, poetry and music which explores the lives and issues of women behind bars–both in the United States and around the world.|WOMEN AS POLITICAL PRISONERS / produced by Oya LeRose and Lisa Rudman. – Documentary made from poetry, music and interviews which explores the lives and issues of women behind bars, both…