Images

Figure 1.

Susan Willmarth 2005, Interrupted Life.

Figure 2.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE
Ten artist/teenagers in Columbus, Ohio created Inside/Outside, an extraordinary corridor of paintings, interpreting the impact of incarceration on mothers and their children.

Figure 3.

"For the Children."
Kimberly Anthony, with Jason Warner. Photovoice, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. San Francisco 2004.

Figure 4.

RULEWALL
Artist Sasha Harris-Cronin collected scores of rules governing the visits between incarcerated women and their children. These rules are, in aggregate, incomprehensible, often contradictory, illogical, and degrading. But incarcerated women must memorize and obey them or lose their visiting privileges.

Figure 5.

"Shackled Birth" from INSIDE/OUTSIDE
Damica D. Campbell. CAPA Teen Artist/Columbus, OH. "It just punched me right dead in my face that the women who go to jail pregnant have to be chained up while they are having their babies."

Figure 6.

MAPPING THE LOCKUP
Kevin Pyles installation piece based on an African totem form. Each shape represents a state; each nail represents a prison. Picture taken at the California Institute for Women (CIW).

Figure 7.

DETAILS FROM STRETCHED THIN
Women at CIW looking through shirts imprinted with photographs, letters, and diary entries by Sharon and Irishtine, the mother and daughter in Stephen Shames's large photograph, printed on white linen.

Figure 8.

DETAILS FROM STRETCHED THIN
Women at CIW looking through shirts imprinted with photographs, letters, and diary entries by Sharon and Irishtine, the mother and daughter in Stephen Shames's large photograph, printed on white linen.

Figure 9.

"America's Leftovers"
TaSin Sabir
This Country does not know what to do with its black population now that they are no longer a source of wealth, are no longer to be bought and sold like cattle. America is the world's greatest jailer, and we are all in jail. Black spirits contained like magnificent birds of wonder. It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's own country. I've been in slavery my whole life ain't nothing changed but the address. James Baldwin, Larry Neal, Harriet Jacobs, and James Brown (in that order).