Resistance Behind Bars
The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women
Penology
Women prisoners
Female offenders
Abuse of
Corrections
Women's studies
Criminology
Services for
Legal status, laws
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social conditions
In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard o…
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