A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons. Joining to discuss her article about it as well as a previous recent report on the ways in which prisons use menstruation as a form of punishment, is Victoria Law, is a freelance journalist and the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2012) and “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (2021). She also co-authored the book Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020).
Read Victoria Law’s latest piece: These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives: https://truthout.org/articles/these-women-face-death-by-incarceration-but-theyre-organizing-for-their-lives/
Read Victoria Law’s previous piece: Prisons Use Menstruation as a Form of Punishment: https://time.com/6265653/prison-menstruation-punishment/
Then, the complicated legal areas of marijuana legal enforcement in California – we speak with Kate Mishkin, a Los Angeles-based audio producer, journalist, and writer, about her latest piece, published by The Appeal: How California Cops Exploit Legal Gray Areas to Continue Their War on Cannabis.
Read Kate Mishkin’s latest article: https://theappeal.org/california-marijuana-cannabis-enforcement-policing/
Check out Kate Mishkin’s website: https://www.katemishkin.com/
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Randolph Belle.
Check out Randolph Belle’s website: http://www.randolphbelle.com/
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