posts tagged "prison"
People interested in learning more about women and prison...
People interested in learning more about women and prison abolition: Angela Davis’ Are Prisons Obsolete? and Victoria Law’s Resistance Behind Bars are really great starting points.
Reblogging myself because I’m just tired of doing the reading for you all. Adding some articles on the issue as well, for those who can’t access books easily:
Look at that! A wiki page on prison abolition!
Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps.
Apparently in this country you become ineligible to eat if you have a record of criminal drug offenses. States have the option of opting out of that federal ban, but Mississippi is not one of those states. Since McLemore had four drug convictions in her past, she was ineligible to receive food stamps, so she lied about her past in order to feed her two children.
The total “cost” of her fraud was $4,367. She has paid the money back. But paying the money back was not enough for federal Judge Henry Wingate.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/woman-gets-jail-for-food-stamp-fraud-wall-street-fraudsters-get-bailouts-20111117#ixzz1eGRenndE
