by Victoria Law | Jun 4, 2026 | Health, incarcerated women, Mass Incarceration, News, Prisons, women's prisons
“Why are they doing women like this? Are we the weaker sex?” Mishunda Davis told Truthout in a call from Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’s largest women’s prison. In 2022, the state passed legislation making menstrual products free for anyone incarcerated in Illinois prisons. Despite the law, Davis and others run out each month. Menstrual care — or the lack of it — gets little attention…
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by James Kilgore | Nov 9, 2025 | Abolition, Angela davis, Australia, Colombia, Death Penalty, Haiti, Internationalism, mexico, News, Prisons, Uganda, women's prisons
Susan Kigula spent 10 years on death row in Uganda, where a murder conviction carried a mandatory death penalty. Undeterred by the threat of execution, Kigula buried her misery in legal books and mobilized a team of lawyers that eventually included current British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Kigula went on to file an appeal on behalf of 417 people incarcerated on death row in Uganda…
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