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SOCIAL JUSTICE WOMENS' PRISON REPORT

PENNSYLVANIA-BASED organizations focused on ending mass incarceration last week released what they’re calling the first-ever report documenting the experiences of people serving life without parole in Pennsylvania’s two women’s prisons.

The report, called “From Victim to Victor: an Inquiry into Death by Incarceration, Gender, and Resistance in Pennsylvania,” was compiled by the Abolitionist Law Center, Let’s Get Free

Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee, and the Human Rights Coalition, and aggregates the experiences of 73 women and trans-masculine people sentenced to die in prison.

The overwhelming majority of those surveyed had survived physical and/or sexual abuse prior to their incarceration and were committed to their own rehabilitation, despite the prison system denying them opportunities to improve their lives.