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Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott; Brenner, Hannah; Bybee, Deborah; Campbell, Rebecca; Cummings, Cristy E.; Darcy, Kathleen; Fedock, Gina; Goodman‐Williams, Rachael

doi:10.1037/t59886-000

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“…For example, the U.S. Department of Justice estimates that between 149,000 to 209,400 incidents of sexual victimization occur annually in prisons and jails (Kubiak et al, 2018). Kubiak et al (2018) report that the Centers for Disease Control found that 44% of women and 23% of men have experienced some form of sexual victimization in U.S. prisons, which increased from 2007 estimates for women that revealed that 25% of incarcerated women reported experiences of sexual abuse inside carceral institutions (Talvi, 2007). These figures, however, are likely higher, thus comparable to women on the outside who do not report instances of rape and sexual abuse for fear of retaliation (Lawston, 2008;Kubiak et al, 2018).…”

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Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence

Gatewood

Norris

2019

DCJ

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Protests and resistance from those locked away in jails, prisons and detention centers occur but receive limited, if any, mainstream attention. In the United States and Canada, 61 instances of prisoner unrest occurred in 2018 alone. In August of the same year, incarcerated men and women in the United States planned nineteen days of peaceful protest to improve prison conditions. Complex links of institutionalized power, white supremacy and Black resistance is receiving renewed attention; however, state-condoned violence against women in correctional institutions (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and medical neglect by prison staff) is understudied. This qualitative case study examines 10 top-tier Criminology journals from 2008-2018 for the presence of prisoner unrest/protest. Findings reveal a paucity of attention devoted to prisoner unrest or state-sanctioned violence. This paper argues that the invisibility of prisoner unrest conceals the breadth and depth of state-inflicted violence against prisoners, especially marginalized peoples. This paper concludes with a discussion of the historical legacy and contemporary invisibility of Black women’s resistance against state-inflicted violence. This paper argues that in order to make sense of and tackle state-condoned violence we must turn to incarcerated individuals, activists, and Black and Indigenous thinkers and grassroots actors.

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confidence: 99%