Author: Cassandra Shaylor

Cassandra Shaylor is an activist lawyer living in Oakland, California. She is a co-founder of both Critical Resistance and Justice Now, organizations focused on abolishing the prison-industrial complex and building safe and healthy communities. This article originally appeared in Left Turn Magazine. Used with permission.
Resistance Behind Bars

Resistance Behind Bars

By 

Tearing Down the Walls Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Victoria Law PM Press, 2009 258 pages, $20.00 In the summer of 1974, women incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York held seven guards hostage in protest of the brutal treatment of activist prisoner Carol Crooks, who had successfully sued…

End of content

End of content