Tightwire V20(8) - 1983?
- Name:Tightwire V20(8)
- Date:1983?
- Institution: Kingston Prison For Women
- Topics: Aboriginal Prisoners, Death Penalty/Capital Punishment, Entertainment, Gender Issues, Special Handling Units- Solitary Confinement-Segregation Units-Administrative Segregation,
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Release Description:
This issue contains articles discussing the death penalty, the struggles of a transexual person in prison, as well as proposed extensions to P4W. Within these articles various topics ae covered such as: police murders, unemployment, poverty, strains which lead to crime, sexual dysphoria, the Elizabeth Fry Society, depression, segregation, double-bunking, community release programs, SHUs and cruel punishment. This issue contains lots of poetry, especially ones about love but also of darkness, depression, confinement, hope, spirituality, sisterhood and the corrupt justice system.
KEYWORDS: transsexualism
Summary by: Aganeta Fuller
Coding by: Melissa Munn