URBS 3546: Carceral Geographies (Urban Studies Junior Seminar)

BC13-58_Video_382, "BCRW Prison Video", 2005-04-07, Subseries 2.3, Box: 80. Barnard Center for Research on Women records, BC13-58. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Scholar and Feminist XIX - 1993: 12. Violence Against Women, 1993, Subseries 2.1, Box: 75, Folder: 6. Barnard Center for Research on Women records, BC13-58. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Prison Conference SF XXXI, 2005, Subseries 2.1, Box: 55, Folder: 7. Barnard Center for Research on Women records, BC13-58. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

The Coalition for Women Prisoners Collection contains physical and digital materials documenting the work of the Coalition for Women Prisoners and its members between 1993 and 2021. The Coalition for Women Prisoners (CWP) was founded in 1994 to raise the visibility of women impacted by the criminal legal system. At its inception, the CWP operated programmatically under the Women in Prison Project (WIPP) of the Correctional Association of New York (CANY), an organization founded in 1844 to monitor prison conditions and advocate for the rights of incarcerated people in New York State. CWP founders identified a need to address the particular gendered violence faced by women entangled in the prison industrial complex, which, in their experience, mainstream prison advocacy groups largely ignored.

Box: 14. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Box: 15. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Box: 45. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Box: 46. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Box: 55. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

Box: 90. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections. From their statement of purpose, the group Women Free Women in Prison expressed the conviction that "women in prison are positioned dangerously at the intersection of a complex system of multiple oppressions, every one as deadly as the others. As Third World — primary Black - women, they bear the brunt of the genocidal colonialist policy of this government."

Box: 110. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections. From their statement of purpose, the group Women Free Women in Prison expressed the conviction that "women in prison are positioned dangerously at the intersection of a complex system of multiple oppressions, every one as deadly as the others. As Third World — primary Black - women, they bear the brunt of the genocidal colonialist policy of this government."

BC13-58_Audio_548, Women, Prison & Punishment: A Conversation, 2000-04-18, Subseries 2.3, Container: Box 82. Barnard Center for Research on Women records, BC13-58. Barnard Archives and Special Collections.

This exhibit was curated by BCRW student research assistant Lucy Trainor '07. From the exhibit description: "With the number of individuals in prison rising at unprecedented rates, it's clear that the current law enforcement policies in the U.S. need to be reexamined and reevaluated. Incarcerated women are a segment of this population who have remained even more invisible than their male counterparts. Few have bothered to ask who these women are, how they end up in prison, and what type of support they need to resume their lives after their sentences are served. What happens to the children and families of incarcerated mothers? How have women been disproportionally targeted in the "War on Drugs?" What types of alternatives to incarceration will benefit communities? The documents shown here, reflecting almost 30 years of advocating for incarcerated women, are the work of the organizations and individuals who dared to challenge the current system by asking these questions and many more."

Box: 95. Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, BCRW02. Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Women's Prison Association is considered to be the first organization for women impacted by incarceration in the United States.

Published and launched in 2005 by the Oakland, CA chapter of the group Critical Resistance, The Abolitionist newspaper is a bilingual (English/Spanish) publication dedicated to the strategy and struggle of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. The Abolitionist is sent to thousands of people imprisoned in jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and in some countries internationally. It is free to prisoners and is supported by paid subscribers on the outside. Each paid subscription by a non-imprisoned person sponsors a free subscription for at least one prisoner. This site shares access to PDF's of past issues.

Published by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners beginning in the year 1996, The Fire Inside is now the longest published newsletter by, for, and about people incarcerated in women's prisons in the U.S. It is read by thousands of people both inside and outside prison. This site offers access to most issues from 1996 to the present day.

Published by Survived and Punished New York, Free: Survivors comprises voices from both inside and outside jails and prisons, sharing stories, art, words, with a stated intent from the editorial collective to "work in the tradition of past newsletters that have spoken across the walls." Survived and Punished NY works to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and to free those locked up in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, psychiatric facilities, and their own homes. This site features pdf's of newsletter issues dating back to the first, Winter 2019.

Published by CARA (Communities Against Rape and Abuse), this timeline presents parallels and intersections between key moments in the American feminist anti-violence movement and the Prison Industrial Complex, from the 1960s to the present.

From the web site: "Blood at the Root focuses our attention on the fact that all #BlackWomensLivesMatter and all #BlackGirlsLivesMatter. Relying on various artifacts, the curators narrate the experiences and resistance of Black women and girls (trans and non-trans) who have been brutalized, imprisoned and killed by the state and its agents. This mini-exhibition is co-curated and co-organized by Ayanna Banks-Harris, Rachel Caidor, Mariame Kaba, Deana Lewis, Andrea Ritchie and Ash Stephens."

Written in 2001, with an available updated version from 2008, this statement from INCITE! reflects the collaborative work of INCITE! and Critical Resistance in calling on social movements to "address both state and interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women."

An abolitionist organization working to end the incarceration of women and girls, Includes materials related to the FreeHer campaign, launched in 2021 to stop new construction of women’s jails and prisons and close existing women’s prisons.

The No Selves to Defend exhibition was organized by Project NIA, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Women and Girls, and the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander. It was co-curated by Rachel Caidor and Mariame Kaba. Running from July through September 2014 at Art in These Times, the exhibition featured the stories of women of color who have been criminalized for self-defense. The exhibition examined the contested meanings and historical and contemporary understandings of self-defense. It sought to locate Marissa Alexander’s story within a broader historical context and legacy. The exhibition also addressed the campaigns and mobilizations that emerged to resist their criminalization and demand their freedom. Finally, it considered how we can support current survivors of violence who have been criminalized for self-defense.

Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations. S&P has affiliates in New York, Chicago, and California. It was founded in 2016 by organizers from the Stand With Nan-Hui defense campaign, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Love & Protect (then known as Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander), and the national Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign.