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Resistance Behind Bars, new book by Victoria Law

Submitted by jenna on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 10:09am

I don't think I ever got around to this when Vikki's book first came out, but Alison Lewis's nice review in the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) Newsletter reminded me to do it now.

Basically I'm saying, "Yay! Radical Reference helped someone write a book!"

sit-down demonstration among Oregon prisoners in 1980s

Submitted by KReynolds on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 1:09am
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It appears that this event occurred at the Oregon Women's Correctional Center during October 1988.

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Submitted by Anonymooose on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 3:33pm
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Some time in the 1980s, women incarcerated in Oregon staged a sit-down demonstration to protest the fact that higher education was available to male prisoners but not female prisoners. As a result of the demonstration, 10 women prisoners were allowed to participate in college courses that had previously only been open to men at Oregon STate Prison.

How would I find media coverage/more information about this demonstration and its results?
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