Abigail Glasgow

1 month ago | msn.com | Abigail Glasgow

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Abigail Glasgow

One Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first time in three weeks. Correctional officers escorted her to the common area of the Central California Women’s Facility and chained her hands and feet to a metal table, on top of which sat a virtual reality headset. Two and a half years into a five-year prison sentence, Royal was about to see Thailand for the first time. When she first put on the headset, Royal immediately had an aerial view of a cove.

Nov 22, 2024 | time.com | Abigail Glasgow

By Abigail GlasgowNovember 22, 2024 10:00 AM ESTOver Thanksgiving of 2002, an NBC Dateline producer named Dan Slepian paid a visit to Greenhaven Correctional Facility, a couple hours north of New York City, to see David Lemus. That year, while planning a series in which he followed New York detectives solving murders, Slepian had learned of Lemus’ wrongful conviction. “I knew nothing about false imprisonment, wrongful convictions, innocence.

Nov 14, 2024 | culturedmag.com | Abigail Glasgow

Portrait of Rhiannon Giddens. Image courtesy of Rhiannon Giddens. At a Rhiannon Giddens concert in Pennsylvania last fall, an audience member shouted “Free Spel!” into the crowd. Giddens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Grammy-award winning musician, is known for infusing her art with education and advocacy around the legacy of slavery and the African origins of folk music—particularly with her instrument of choice, the banjo.

Aug 28, 2024 | thecut.com | Abigail Glasgow

For incarcerated women, access to makeup can mean access to finding and feeling like themselves. So why is it often denied? To better understand what role makeup plays behind bars, we sat down with four women currently incarcerated.