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Multiple States Are Building New Women’s Prisons; Can They Be Stopped?

Jul 2, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Sierra Dickey

Tiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation. In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent newspaper, reported that guards at Chittenden Regional engaged in drug use and sexually abused the incarcerated women they oversaw.
Multiple States Are Building New Women’s Prisons, But Can They Be Stopped?

Jul 2, 2024 | scheerpost.com | Sierra Dickey

By Sierra Dickey / PrismTiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation. In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent newspaper, reported that guards at Chittenden Regional engaged in drug use and sexually abused the incarcerated women they oversaw.
States are building new women’s prisons. Can they be stopped?

Jul 1, 2024 | prismreports.org | Sierra Dickey

Tiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation. In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent newspaper, reported that guards at Chittenden Regional engaged in drug use and sexually abused the incarcerated women they oversaw.
Caribbean Artists Contest Gentrification at the Mead

Apr 18, 2024 | theshoestring.org | Sierra Dickey |Brian Z. Zayatz

A drone pours over a seaside golf course, while a line of cruise ships noses greedily towards port. Clear fluids fly into glass vials in an industrial lab, cars surge down palm-laced highways, and a white family in safari-wear stands exultant on a crystalline beach. Is this the visual identity of the modern Caribbean? How different might it look if sighted from within the experiences of artists working on the ground?
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and The Shoestring Wants to Give You Art

Nov 27, 2023 | theshoestring.org | Brian Z. Zayatz |Sierra Dickey

By The ShoestringTomorrow is Giving Tuesday - a day each year when community-minded people around the country support the causes that are important to them. For The Shoestring, it's a day when we need to see a major show of support from our community of people in western Mass who value the labor-intensive journalism we bring you every week. That's why this Giving Tuesday, in addition to giving you journalism, we want to give you art.
State Withholding Plans for New Women's Prison

Jun 20, 2023 | theshoestring.org | Sierra Dickey |Sarah Robertson

When the state House and Senate passed a five-year moratorium on building any new prisons and jails last year, those who had spent years fighting against the construction of a new women's prison thought that the Legislature was finally listening. But, in one of his last moves in office last August, former Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed the bill. Now, under Gov. Maura Healey, the new women's prison is back on the table.
Redacted: Massachusetts Withholding Plans For New Women’s Prison

Jun 19, 2023 | shadowproof.com | Sierra Dickey

Featured ReportingLatest NewsPrison Protest When the state House and Senate passed a five-year moratorium on building any new prisons and jails last year, those who had spent years fighting against the construction of a new women’s prison thought that the Legislature was finally listening. But, in one of his last moves in office last August, former Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed the bill. Now, under Gov. Maura Healey, the new women’s prison is back on the table. What’s more, the state agencies in...
The Body is Still a Political Tool

Feb 9, 2023 | theshoestring.org | Sierra Dickey

Mass Moca’s “Choreopolitics” asks about our body’s allegiances until March 13thBy Sierra DickeyThe black pavement was still hot from the day’s sun at 8 p.m. when performers and audience members began to touch it – some falling to their knees, some laying flat upon it, and some brushing it with their fingertips as they hovered in low squats. This was the scene in the back courtyard at MassMoca on Thursday, August 18, 2022.