Yell Real Loud: HIV-Positive Women Prisoners Challenge Constructions of Justice
In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 150-157
ISSN: 1043-1578, 0094-7571
Via the experience & opinions of HIV-positive women prisoner activists, an alternate progressive antiviolence discourse on "safety" & "justice" is explored with an eye toward increasing the safety of women & challenging the prison-industrial complex. To resist excessive imprisonment, community-based individualized interventions are offered as positive solutions to crime. As staff members of Women's Positive Legal Action Network -- a nonprofit organization providing legal services & community education around the special needs of HIV-positive women caught in the criminal justice system -- we asked HIV-positive women prisoner activists to share their experiences of surviving violent crime in & out of the prison setting, & to detail their interactions with the criminal justice system. In particular, we asked these women how they define justice & safety, how, & if, the current criminal justice system should be included in a strategy of social justice & violence prevention, & what role activism can play in galvanizing social change. 11 References. Adapted from the source document.