women prisoners

Chronicles the life of Margaret Werner, focusing on the years she spent living in Russia with her family under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.

Safiya Bukhari joined the Black Panther Party in 1969, embarking on a lifelong commitment to community organizing. She served nine years in prison on charges related to the Black Liberation Army and she was released in 1983. Upon her release she began working in organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners. She died in 2003.

Cristina Rathbone recounts the experiences she had while observing life for inmates in MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women's prison in the United States.

Explores issues related to female imprisonment, discussing mental illness, health care, safety, the effects on the family, and international offenders, and describing women's prisons.