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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 17 - March 2001

< Dedication
 
< She can not see
 
< Is God Calling or is Medical Run by the Grim Reaper?
 
< Legal Corner: Growing old in prison--what will it mean?
 
< Editorial: No Geriatric Prisons!
 
< Whose Common Sense? Whose Fault?
 
< Medical Conditions at Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW)
 
< Outraged Community Responds to CCWF Deaths
 
< Reflections on New-Found Freedom
 
< Wandering Star
 
< Two perspectives on "I" that is "we": Charisse Shumate and Hegel
 
< Learn to Look Inside
 
< Inmates & Rabbits at Risk
 
< Pardons for Kemba, Linda and Susan
 
< Incarcerated Parents Manual
 
< Legislative Hearings Materials Available
 
      

Dedication

A woman at a CCWP demonstration, with cardboard tombstones of five women who died of medical neglect while at CCWF.Women prisoners, like women everywhere, have all kinds of family connections. We have heard so much about the women who have died behind bars, and we want to acknowledge that all of the women who have died had family. They were grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters and very dear friends of people on the outside as well as those behind the walls. Over the past few months, we have heard from many family members, who have spoken out about the conditions women prisoners and their families have to live under.

We dedicate this issue of The Fire Inside to the family members of those women who have died. Whether you are behind the walls or in the outside world, you keep the memory of these women alive through your anger, your grief and your love.

Last updated August 19, 2003 05:45 AM



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