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Fallen Women - Santa Fe Reporter article by Silja Talvi
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008
by Silja JA Talvi
Fallen Women
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Required Religious Programming.
Location:
New Mexico.
For incarcerated women, there is little justice to be found
By Silja JA Talvi
Three years ago, I journeyed back to Santa Fe to return to a city where I had once lived—and that always seemed to call me back.
I headed out from Seattle with a snowboard …
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- Inside the American Correctional Association, Sept. 15, 2005
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Feb. 15, 2005
- Book Review: Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison, Feb. 15, 2004
- Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, Jan. 15, 2004
- God Pod Under Fire, Dec. 15, 2003
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