Joshua Freeman

Feb 1, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Phillip Smith |Catherine Nelson |Steve Fraser |Joshua Freeman

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a 2019 issue of The Reflector, a prison newspaper, Catherine Nelson shared a common grievance among the incarcerated. “The only problem I have with my job is the pay hasn’t increased in over two decades,” wrote Nelson. At the time, she worked in a prison factory where she was forced to save two weeks’ pay “to buy one 18-pack of feminine hygiene pads,” a basic necessity.