No more cages. no. 3 : A Bi-monthly women's prison newsletter

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Title:
No more cages. no. 3 : A Bi-monthly women's prison newsletter
Description:
Newsletter for women in prisons, jails and psychiatric institutions. Published with the intention of providing a forum through which incarcerated woman can speak and coalition build, outside prison groups can find each other and unite, and others can familiarize themselves with the struggles of women behind bars and learn how to organize around and support them. Articles on "Project Uppercrust," a shakedown at MCI Framingham in Massachusetts, the lack of educational, work release, or furlough programs for women, and a history of the lobotomy. Also including information about individual cases, women on death row and in solitary confinement, and sex worker activism in England.
Creator:
The Women Free Women in Prison Collective
Date:
1983
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Magazines (periodicals)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 2 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Cynthia Miller Papers
Subjects:
Electroconvulsive therapy
Mentally ill prisoners
Mentally ill women--Commitment and detention
Prostitution--Law and legislation
Psychosurgery
Women--Imprisonment
Women prisoners
Extent:
32 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums869-b002-f008-i004
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Brooklyn (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums869-b002-f008-i004