Readings
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press. 2010.
- Bortner, M.A. “Controlled and Excluded: Reproduction and Motherhood Among Poor and
- Imprisoned Women.” In Women at the Margins, edited by Figueira-McDonough and
- Sarri, 255-270. New York: The Hawthorn Press, 2002.
- Chen. Michelle. “’Bargain” on Immigration would Feed Prison Profits.” In These Times: With Liberty and Justice for All. July 26, 2013.
- https://inthesetimes.com/article/
- Collins, Patricia Hill. “Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary U.S.
- Population Policies.” In Women, Citizenship and Difference, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis, 118-29. London: Zed Books, 1999.
- Diaz-Cotto, Juanita. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio. Austin:
University of Texas. 2006. - Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punishment: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Random House. 1977/1995.
- Lawston, Jodie and Ashley Lucas, eds. Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Scholars, Activists, and
Artists, New York: SUNY Press, 2011. - Limoncelli, Stephanie. “The Trouble with Trafficking: Conceptualizing Women’s Sexual Labor and Economic Human Rights.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 32: 261-269, 2009.
- Levi, Robin and Ayelet Waldman, eds. Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives From Women's Prisons. San Francisco: McSweeney and Voice of Witness.
- López-Garza, Marta. "Formerly Incarcerated Women: Stories of Returning Home, to Family
and Community" accepted for inclusion in the book manuscript, The Research Justice Reader: Strategies for Social Transformation, editor Andrew Jolivette, anticipated publication, 2015. - Silliman, Jael and Anannya Bhattacharjee, eds. Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and
Criminalization, Cambridge: South End Press, 2002. - Sudbury, Julia, ed. Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. New
York: Routledge, 2005. - Thompson, Heather Ann. “How Prisons Changes the Balance of Power in America,” The
Atlantic Magazine. - https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/how-prisons-change-the-balance-of-powerin-america/280341/
- ______. “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History.” The Journal of American History. December 2010.
Visual Media/Documentaries
- López-Garza, Marta. "When Will the Punishment End?': Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives." Available for viewing at: www.whenwillpunishmentend.net