Davis taught philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles,ĭuring which time she also was a member of the Communist Party USA and associated with the Black Panther Party. Germany, coming back to the US to study with Herbert Marcuse at UC San Diego she earned a master's degree from the University ofĬalifornia, San Diego, returning to Germany for her Ph.D. Studied French at Brandeis University (BA) and philosophy in Frankfurt, West Oppressed peoples became political outlaws? Is it that both these women, passionate in their pursuit for social justice for I wish to highlight their views on slavery, Intellectuals, who were hounded by the state (US) in the 1970s and beyond. This paper I’ll focus on the revolutionary spirit and commitment of Angelaĭavis and Assata Shakur-two iconic Black women and imprisoned This is why it is important to look at women’sĪutobiographies, to study prison conditions and resistance to repression from Women’s imprisonment is always an afterthought. Women and feminist prisoners rights activists the world over report that Granted that in a time of war women’s right to dignity, fair trial and humane Photographs of their tortured bodies have appeared on the internet, yetįew reports have made light of the women’s predicament, as if to take for International Women Count Network, Black Women’s Rape Action Project, and WomenĪgainst Rape have charged (Groves 2004). Raped, humiliated and even disappeared, as the human rights groups Iraqi detainees, have been Iraqi women who have also been sexually abused, Invisible, though, especially in light of the US personnel’s torture against Which defy even US Supreme Court rulings, notably Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Hardly credible, in particular in light of the existence of CIA run prisons

Some 150 persons) are duly convicted of a (terrorist) crime. Government insists that it confines nobody for political conviction and thatĪll so-called political prisoners (of which Amnesty International has noted

For instance, if a convict’s utterance of the word “slave” is overheardīy guards, she’ll get time in the “hole”-thirty days of solitary While facing detention and/or long prison sentences and thus face further This category includes people convictedĭue to their resistance to state policies and politics and those who become politicized Theorized imprisonment as such as political prisoners.

Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland always served the role of social control (Kurshan 1996). Gender and Resistance in the US Criminal Justice System

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