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Jonathan Demme made an all-timer in the subgenre of women in prison exploitation films with 1974's Caged Heat. It was a movie that Roger Corman didn't want to make, but Demme worked hard to get the financing and delivered a home run.
Read the review from February 2020 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-14G
#blog #review #70s #womeninprison #exploitation #rogercorman #jonathandemme
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Bruno Mattei plus Laura Gemser multiplied by the women in prison genre is a hell of an equation and with a title like Violence in a Women's Prison, how can you go wrong?
Read the review from May 2019 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-Jr
#blog #review #exploitation #80s #brunomattei #lauragemser #womeninprison #action
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And, naturally, it fits B-Movie Enema like PB&J.
Read the review from November 2018 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-ys
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The third entry in the Isla franchise, The Wicked Warden, isn't actually an Ilsa movie, but a Jess Franco masterpiece that is one of the all time great women in prison films.
Read the review from September 2018 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-vg
#blog #review #70s #womeninprison #exploitation #jessfranco #dyannethorne #ilsa
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Back in the 70s, director Cirio Santiago was making a lot of action flicks in the Philippines. A lot of them featured African American actors because they were available and they could get the work there. The Muthers is one of those movies and has an awesome title to boot.
Read the review from June 2018 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-H
#blog #review #70s #blaxploitation #filipinofilm #action #thriller #womeninprison
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Have you experienced incarceration and worked for change in your community?
Calling Black Women in Detroit and Lansing!
We would love to hear your story.
There is a new PhD project led by a researcher from Detroit, focusing on the political lives of Black women after incarceration. This project involves interviewing Black women who have been impacted by incarceration and have advocated for […]
https://votingaccessforall.org/2025/10/research-opportunity/
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Amazon Jail is a fun little Brazilian women in prison flick. It's a bit of a wild ride that doesn't exactly seem like every act is on the same page, but it works within the genre kind of nicely.
Read the review from February 2024 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-4JT
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started a #wikipedia article on @arizonastate professor of communications, women's studies, Kristin Bervig Valentine (1933-2024): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Bervig_Valentine @wikiwomeninred #Arizona #theatre #WomeninPrison #Diedin2024
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We're looking back at another past review that was released by Roger Corman and it might just be one of the very best women-in-prison flicks ever made - Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat!
Read the review from February 2020 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-14G
#blog #review #exploitation #70s #womeninprison #jonathandemme #rogercorman #drama
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Violence in a Women's Prison stars Laura Gemser in one of the times in which she played Emanuelle... Not the Emmanuelle which was an international smash hit sex symbol, but a role dubbed "Black" Emanuelle. Anyway, here's a review of yet another Bruno Mattei film.
Read the review from May 2019 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-Jr
#blog #review #80s #womeninprison #drama #brunomattei #lauragemser
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I will never have enough wonderful things to say about the 2018 women-in-prison exploitation masterpiece that is Amazon Hot Box. So just check out this classic review from some years back to get the lowdown yourself.
Read the review from November 2018 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-ys
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More FCI Dublin women complain of retaliation, including having rifles pointed at them
"Women who were transferred away from the now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin are continuing to complain they're being retaliated against at their new facilities in Texas, Minnesota, Miami and Philadelphia,where they say they are not being given jobs that could reduce their sentences and, in one case, had rifles pointed at them to scare..."
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“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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FCI Dublin prison closure: Women describe horrific journey across U.S.
DUBLIN, Calif. - Dozens of women have shared horrific-sounding bus rides to prisons across the country as the Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin last week. Most report that they are getting blamed for the closure because they used their voice to complain about sexual abuse at the East Bay facility.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/fci-dublin-prison-closure-women-describe-horrific-journey-across-u-s
#womeninprison #California #FCIDublin #Federalprisons #abuse #humanrights
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#NowWatching House of Whipcord (1974) - Flagellations sur Shadowz #cinema #horror #horreur #movie #shadowz #womeninprison #WIP #whip #cinemadexploitation
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Japan: Women Seriously Abused in Prisons | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/14/japan-women-seriously-abused-prisons#Japan
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Only 5 percent of sexual assault perpetrators are ever arrested -- while most women in prison are themselves victims of abuse.
Grassroots Defense Committees Support Criminalized Survivors of Violence
| Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/grassroots-defense-committees-support-criminalized-survivors-of-vlnce/#feminism #feminismus #womensrights #AbuseSurvivors #womeninprison #patriarchy #PatriarchatAnzünden 🔥 #selfdefenseisnotacrime #SelbstverteidigungIstKeinVerbrechen
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If we left behind the oppressive systems that deprive people of their very freedom, what could we create instead?
By Tracy McCarter , TRUTHOUT
PublishedOctober 1, 2023#womeninprison #abuseinprison #usracisticprisonsystem #usoppression #prisonindustrycomplex
#womensrightsarehumanrights #freeallpoliticalprisoners #freeemail #justice #noJusticeNoPeace
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As a Black Woman Accused of Killing a White Man, I Was Never Innocent Until Proven Guilty | Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/as-a-black-woman-accused-of-killing-a-white-man-i-was-never-innocent-until-proven-guilty/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=7272f01064-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_05_16_12_47_COPY_01&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-df72203684-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
#usracism #usprisons #womeninprison #abuseinprison #usracisticprisonsystem #usprisonsystem #oppressionofwomen #SystemicOpression #OppressionIndustrialCompkex
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New Report Reveals Systemic Medical Neglect and Violence in CA Women’s Prisons
New public health research on women’s prisons exposes medical neglect, sexual violence and inhumane living conditions.
Full report here: humanimpact.org/hipprojects/healthnotwomensprisons/
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New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law
"New York’s Adult Survivors Act briefly waives the statute of limitations to file sexual abuse lawsuits. Some of New York’s imprisoned women are risking retaliation from guards in order to file cases alleging horrific treatment at the hands of the state. ..."
https://theappeal.org/new-york-adult-survivors-act-women-prisons/
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I just cataloged the final issue of Tenacious: Art & Writing by Women in Prison, no. 43. What a powerful zine it was. Researchers ask for it all the time.
Thank you to the incarcerated women who contributed over the zine's 19-year run for sharing their stories & #VikkiLaw for editing!
