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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 09 - September 1998

< Dedication
 
< Roz Simpson Moore-Bey, HIV and AIDS activist
 
< Battered Woman in Federal Prison
 
< Theresa Cruz's Bail Revoked
 
< Editorial
 
< Critical Resistance: Expanding Our Vision of What Is Possible
 
< Inhumanity of Central California Women Facility Is in Full Effect
 
< Former Prisoners and Activists Speak Out on HIV Behind Bars
 
< Convicted Battered Woman Seeks Relief from Same Court System That Allowed Exclusion of Women from Jury
 
< Poetic Justice
 
< Blaming the Lawsuit: Shumate v. Wilson Is the New Excuse
 
< Lacresha Murray - Another Child Locked Away
 
< News Briefs
 
       

Dedication

In early June, prisoners rights activists at California Prison Focus, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and Amnesty International received information from women housed in the VSPW SHU that sexual harrassment and intimidation by staff, which has been constant since the prison opened in 1995, has gotten much worse. Twelve women signed a joint grievance against prison staff stating that the mistreatment consisted of sexual assault, improper touching, leering at women in showers, intimidation and constant verbal harassment. For your bravery in fighting back against abuse, we dedicate this issue of Fire Inside to the whistle blowers in the VSPW SHU.

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