Today, netflix released the final season of OrangeIsTheNewBlack. The trope of the deviant and inhumane female prisoner is just one of the myths OITNB was able to bust. Here are four more myths about this population—
But the trope of the deviant and inhumane female prisoner is just one of the myths OITNB was able to bust.Many have heard of the 1971
, where male prisoners at Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, seized control of the prison to fight for improved living conditions, resulting in 39 deaths and 89 injuries.resides in women’s prisons—and their activism is often less violent, more peaceful and more effective than that of their male counterparts., an uprising at all-female Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in August of 1974.
Incarcerated women have resisted institutional abuse more recently, too. The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama was rife with sexual abuse, with women trading sex acts for the hygiene and menstrual products withheld from them. In an example of almost impossible organizing and the power of storytelling, women at the prison pushed back on severely dehumanizing conditions in 2014 by whistleblowing on their deplorable conditions.
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