14. The Legal System: Women Criminal Defendants; Women in Prison
International Network for Incarcerated Girls and Women
“INIGW members advocate for the rights of incarcerated girls and women in their respective countries/states, and we support each other and other groups & individuals advocating for incarcerated females in various locations.”
https://theinigw.wixsite.com/inigw
Keep Prisons Single Sex
“... to campaign for the sex-based rights of women in prison to single-sex accommodation and same-sex searching. We also campaign for data on offending to be recorded by sex throughout the criminal justice system.”
https://kpssinfo.org
https://twitter.com/NoXYinXXprisons
Women’s Liberation Front: Women’s Prisons
“Incarcerated women are overwhelmingly victims of male violence.”
https://www.womensliberationfront.org/womens-prisons
She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place where I was supposed to sign. On the paper there was a line for charges. In the blank space, someone had written “driving while female.”
― Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
American Psychological Association. “Incarcerated women: Poverty, trauma and unmet need.” (2019)
https://archive.ph/RNfI8
Jo Bartosch. “Barbie Kardashian: The grisly reality of self-ID: In Ireland, even the most violent and unhinged sex offenders are being housed in women’s prisons.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/xDc2X
_____. “Why did we ever let male rapists into women’s prisons?: Vulnerable women have been put at serious risk by the state’s blind devotion to trans ideology.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/ESBWK
Julie Bindel. “'I was sexually assaulted in a women's prison... by a fellow inmate with male genitalia': Read Amy's story and decide - can it be right to put trans sex offenders in female jails?” [2021]
https://archive.ph/ZOw6u
_____. “Trans activism’s war on solidarity: Witches are drowned and bitches burned at the stake.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/CGRAg
_____. “When abused women fight back: Those trapped in violent relationships are still being let down by the justice system.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/aaQlT
_____. "Why are we locking up abused women?: The Domestic Violence Bill doesn't do enough to protect victims from the actions of violent partners." [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/jTtce
_____. “The women jailed for fighting back: The re-trial of Fri Martin shows how little the justice system cares for victims of domestic violence.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/JCCmx
_____. "Aileen Wuornos was no monster: Why do we continue to sensationalise this tormented woman's desperate life?" [2020] https://archive.ph/pjUdo
Annie Brown. "'Too dangerous for the dock' prisoner Andrew Burns held down by 11 guards after nurse attack in hospital: The notorious thug was recently let off an assault charge because he was deemed too dangerous to take to a courtroom."
https://archive.ph/wip/YaNmp
Bill Browning. "They thought she is transgender so they put her in the men’s prison. She isn’t.: The nurse told officers “everything fell out” when she was examined - despite no physical examination being performed." [2018]
https://archive.ph/eSLWa
Correctional Service Canada. "Gender diverse offenders with a history of sexual offending.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/GdRBS
Carol Dansereau. "Males pour into women's prisons, as progressives look away." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/TVUHw
Kara Dansky. "This is a record of women’s dissent: Dana Rivers is a man. No men in women’s prisons." [2022]
https://archive.ph/4qAJr
Matt Dathan. “Ministers to have veto on where trans prisoners serve sentences.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/pgfzc#selection-811.0-822.0
Equality [sic!] California. "CA LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL TO ENSURE INCARCERATED TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE HOUSED WHERE THEY ARE SAFEST: SB 132 by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and co-sponsored by a broad coalition of civil rights groups helps protect and affirm transgender incarcerated people." [202]
https://www.eqca.org/release-sb132-final-passage/
The Economist. "Putting trans women in female prisons sets up a clash of rights: The policy is likely to create more problems than it solves.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/adM7M
Zachary Elliot. “Prison segregation by sex, not subjectivity.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/ZmOvW
Libby Emmons. "Biological men transferred to women's prisons allegedly rape and assault inmates." [2021]
https://archive.ph/lvEDY#selection-361.0-361.80
Renee Gerlich. “Cassandra lives: From politics to the courtroom, women are disbelieved.” [2020]
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
https://archive.ph/ydivH
Genevieve Gluck. “ACLU represented transgender terrorist, diaper fetishist to secure gender self-identification in NJ women’s prison.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/xqjYS
_____. “AUS: female inmates protest transfer of transgender sex offender." [2022]
https://archive.ph/Dd8bE
_____. "CANADA: Man who raped infant quietly moved to prison with mother-baby unit after transgender claim.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/6UXsd#selection-499.0-482.2
Amber S. Jackson. “California women's prison passes out condoms to inmate population as arrival of ‘transwomen’ causes explosion of risky sex.”[2021]
https://archive.ph/XZkaE
Melissa Jeltsen. "Woman says police forced her to give birth in handcuffs: The woman claims she was shackled during her labor, over the objections of medical staff who told police the practice was illegal." [2018]
https://archive.ph/0nv5a
Jimmy Jenkins. “Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/FY4wa
Morgan Laird. “What’s Current: Campaigners in Ottawa protest the transfer of male offenders to women’s prisons” [2022]
https://archive.ph/6umtp
https://twitter.com/esme_saysno/status/1535715739834925063
Victoria Law. “Against carceral feminism.” [2014]
https://archive.ph/wip/FKA5T
Sam Levin. “Ex-guard charged with 95 counts of sexual abuse in California women’s prison: Gregory Rodriguez accused of abusing 13 people over a decade, as advocate say case highlights systemic sexual violence in prisons.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/T2sNt
Richard Luscombe and agencies. “Appeal raises $150,000 for girl ordered to pay family of accused rapist she killed: Judge had ‘no other option’ but to impose restitution on human trafficking victim given probation with risk of 20 years’ prison.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/LBblu
The Marshall Project. "What is prison like for women and girls: The Marshall Project teams up with Teen Vogue to listen." [2017]
https://archive.ph/wip/cKJIH
Jaymi McCann. “More than half of trans inmates have been convicted of a sexual offence: Of the 146 such prisoners in jails across England and Wales, 87 were originally found guilty of a sex crime.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/lsvbT
Ruth Nakagawa. “California prison report fails to note the obvious.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/rpjUW
Oliver Norton. “TWIST PERV: Rape monster who targeted female victims demands move to WOMEN’S prisons.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/wip/9CuSB
Gearóid Ó Loingsigh. “Limerick Prison: The rights of female prisoners.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/Enjih
Mary Margaret Olohan. "Just how many imprisoned men who identify as transgender are guilty of sexual assault? More than half, new data shows.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/gFAUA
Reduxx Team. “SCOTLAND: Trans-identified male guilty of raping two women with “her penis” sent to women’s prison.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/PVUfY
Patrick Reilly. “Transgender Rikers inmate sentenced to 7 years for raping female prisoner.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/JgjNC
Hugh Ryan. "The Women's House of Detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison." [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/tZsKA
Jessica Schulberg. "Washington moves trans woman back to men’s prison In unprecedented act." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/H5Ynl
Diane Shaw. “Abuse of incarcerated women by male trans inmates drives lawsuit against California.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/Cc8Ns
_____. "‘Transgender’ inmates sexually assault, rape female inmates at a shocking rate, Ministry of Justice reveals." [2020]
https://archive.ph/3K5Pe
Abigail Shrier. "Breaking: Female inmate sues City of New York after being sexually assaulted by male predator who was 'instructed' to claim he was transgender in order to be housed with women." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/Uo8dp
____. “Male inmates in women’s prisons: If Congress passes the Equality Act, California’s dangerous policy would go nationwide.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/zItlp
_____. “Women being ‘punished’ for complaining about male transfers: inmate in California women’s prison.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/7kf5c
Anna Slatz. “Almost 50% of trans inmates in federal custody for sex offenses.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/vhh7I
_____. "Breaking: Female inmate sues City of New York after being sexually assaulted by male predator who was 'instructed' to claim he was transgender in order to be housed with women." [2024]
https://archive.ph/wip/Uo8dp
_____. “Women being ‘punished’ for complaining about male transfers: inmate in California women’s prison.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/7kf5c
Truth be told, whether free or incarcerated, women were not safe anywhere. Since the dawn of time, they had been the victims of decisions that were taken without their consent.
― Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball
John M. Smoot; Don Hamilton, ed.. “The trial court and gender theory.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/6Ftse
Tish Still. “The apartheid of sex: Rothblatt.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/No2Zf
The Sunday Times. [UK] “Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/K9r07
David Walker. “Anger as trans inmates revert to males when they leave Scottish prisons.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/sZwWa
Kalyn Womack. “Black teenage girl who killed her rapist ordered to pay $150k to his estate: The bill created to protect trafficking victims in cases like this did not get passed in the state.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/LLxzv#selection-799.0-799.93
Shay Woulahan. “UK: Teen girl hospitalized after being attacked in unisex school bathroom.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/suIrW
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
― Cynthia Payne
Diane Shaw. “Abuse of incarcerated women by male trans inmates drives lawsuit against California.” [2021]
VIDEO
https://www.womenarehuman.com/abuse-of-incarcerated-women-by-male-trans-inmates-drives-lawsuit-against-california/
Women’s Declaration International. “Lauren Adams - USA - Fighting for single-sex prisons.” [2022] VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8apDY0za4
The culture of sexual violence was so pervasive that even the prison chaplain was sexually assaulting women when they came to the chapel.
― Bryan Stevenson
Feminist Criminology PERIODICAL
Peer reviewed journal.
“…research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. Published five times a year by SAGE Publications as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.
The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females. Therefore, research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality.”
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/feminist-criminology#
If an inmate swears at a guard, fights, or hides contraband like cigarettes or candy [Sheriff Arpaio has banned coffee, cigarettes, hot lunches, girlie mags & TV], she's kicked out of the tents and sent to lockdown--a tiny cell 10x12 feet that houses 4 women, instead of the 2 it was built for. There's no tv, no phone, & no a/c. Even though most of these women have drug problems, programs like NA or AA are considered 'privileges' forbidden to those locked down. The only way to get out of lockdown is to volunteer for the chain gang--the first & only female chain gang in the United States (as of Aug 1997). Volunteers sign a paper that says they know & accept the conditions on the chain--cleaning Phoenix streets, painting the center strip of miles of highway, & burying AZ's indigent. The accusation of 'cruel & unusual punishment' is quashed by the argument that the chain gang is purely voluntary. After all, if you prefer, you can spend the whole year in lockdown.
― Jane Evelyn Atwood, Too Much Time: Women in Prison