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 was a member of the Beaver 55 who protested against Dow Chemical; Lee Weinberg, one of the Tucson Five (four of whom were women), jailed for contempt for not testifying before a grand jury; Barbara Deming, a pacifist who served time for civil disobedience against the Vietnam War; a poem by a man about his loved one, who was serving time in a women's facility in New York City; excerpt from an interview with a white woman who spent six weeks in a house of detention; an interview between two women, one Black and one white, who were both heroin addicts, and who were brought to Niantic State Farm; a poem by Ericka Huggins; and an excerpt from a letter from Angela Davis to Huggins while both women were in prison. Readings by Barbara Berner, Ronnie Solomon, and Candy Brown. The theme song is sung by Ruthie Gordon.