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The Huge Challenges of Building a Life After Prison

Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau. April 15, 2010.

Helping women prisoners cope with the challenge of re-entry into normal life requires a lot more than motivational speeches and fashion advice.

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison -- a Powerful Memoir by Piper Kerman

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 1, 2010.

Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.

Why Being Pregnant in a Texas Lock-up Is a Living Hell

Diane Wilson, AlterNet. June 4, 2009.

"The public has no idea how many young mothers and their babies come out of jail injured or traumatized."

Why Are we Keeping Old Ladies Locked Up in Prison?

Viji Sundaram, New America Media. February 10, 2009.

Nonviolent and medically neglected, elderly prisoners in California routinely die horrible deaths.

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