Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. Her first book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, examines organizing in women's jails and prisons across the country. She writes regularly for Truthout and is a contributor to the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Her next book, co-written with Maya Schenwar, critically examines proposed "alternatives" to incarceration and explores creative and far-reaching solutions to truly end mass incarceration. She is also the proud parent of a NYC high school student. Find more of her work at victorialaw.net.
Other articles by this author
With Sons in Solitary, Mothers Fight for Their Freedom - and Their Lives
By Victoria Law, Solitary Watch | Report
Punished for Survival: Domestic Violence, Criminalization and the Case of Naomi Freeman
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Wave of Hunger Strikes at Immigrant Prisons Gains Steam
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
After Spending Years in Prison, 2,000 Federal Drug War Prisoners Will Face Deportation
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Prisoners' Families Organize to Resist Incarceration and Its Costs
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Understanding Mass Incarceration and Bringing It Down: An Interview With James Kilgore
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Interview
Mothers Serving Long-Term Drug Sentences Call for Clemency
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Two Years After Hunger Strike, California Settlement May Release 2,000 Prisoners From Solitary
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Alabama Case Illustrates Difficulties Women Behind Bars Face When Seeking Abortion
By Victoria Law, RH Reality Check | News Analysis
After Obama Clemencies, Activists Question Scope of Bipartisan Prison "Reform"
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Two Years After Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, What's Changed for People Inside the Prison?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Unlikely Communities: Breaking the Alienation of Incarceration
By Victoria Law, PM Press | Book Excerpt
For Advocates, Push to End Solitary Confinement in Prison Only Begins With Youth Isolation
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Despite Advances, the Trans Struggle for Justice Behind Bars Is Just Beginning
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
Your Pregnancy May Subject You to Even More Law Enforcement Violence
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
The Struggle to Abolish Bail Gaining Momentum in Massachusetts
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | News Analysis
Phyllis "Grandma" Hardy Is Home! But Over 98,000 People Remain Prisoners of the Drug War
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Voices From Solitary: "I Am Somebody's Daughter"
By Victoria Law, Solitary Watch | Op-Ed
Reproductive Health Care in Women's Prisons "Painful" and "Traumatic"
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Seven Ways to Revolutionize Childcare and Build All-Ages Movements
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Op-Ed
Seven Ways to Support People in Prison
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Op-Ed
Why Is Marissa Alexander Still Being Punished for Fighting Back?
By Victoria Law, The Nation | News Analysis
Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, but Advocates Keep Fighting
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
Women in Solitary Confinement
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
It's Time to Bring Domestic Violence Survivors Like Barbara Sheehan Home From Prison
By Victoria Law, The Nation | Op-Ed
Despite Enduring a Lifetime of Violence, Kelly Savage Emerges as an In-Prison Activist
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
"Ban the Box" Campaigns Seek to End Discrimination Against Formerly Incarcerated College Applicants
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Why Is California Keeping Kelly Savage in Prison for a Crime She Didn't Commit?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Why Prisons Don't Work and How We Can Do Better: A Conversation With Maya Schenwar
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Interview
What Are Men Doing to Challenge and Stop Gender Violence?
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Op-Ed
A Mother Who Just Wanted to Know When Her Son Would Eat
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
Public Prisons, Private Profits
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
It's 2014. Why Do We Still Need Laws Banning Coerced Sterilization?
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | News Analysis
What Do Private Prisons Have to Do With the Upcoming Election?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Against Carceral Feminism
By Victoria Law, Jacobin | News Analysis
"I Never Want Anyone Else to Go Through What I Did"
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
"Government, Not Gangsters, Should Control the Drug Market": But Will That Stop Mass Incarceration?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
No Separate Justice Campaign Denounces Post-9/11 Abuses
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
Will Obama's Commutation Allow Grandma Hardy and Thousands of Drug War Prisoners to Finally Go Home?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
What "Orange Is the New Black" Got Wrong About Compassionate Release
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
How Public Pressure Got Two Mothers Out of Jail
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
Time to Speak Up: Women's Prison Resistance in Alabama
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | News Analysis
A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What's Changed?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
FreeHer: Formerly Incarcerated Women Demand an End to Mass Incarceration
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Do Black Lesbians Have a Right to Self-Defense?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Film Review
What's Gender Got to Do With Policing and Prison?
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
California Turns to Private Prison to Address Overcrowding and Medical Care
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
The War on Drugs: Reaching Past the US Prison System to Latin America
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
The Untold, Real-Life Story of the Prison in "Orange Is the New Black"
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | Report
What Does Rick Perry's Refusal To Adopt Prison Rape Elimination Act Mean for Texans Behind Bars?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Border Crossings Refocus Immigration Debate on Families
By Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence | News Analysis
Massachusetts Senate Votes for Childbirth Without Chains
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Will Massachusetts Build a New Jail or Explore Alternatives to Bail?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
"If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go": Efforts to Resolve the Growing Numbers of Aging Behind Bars
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
How Dede Adnahom Didn't Get Deported
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
California Ships Prisoners Out of State to "Reduce" Its Prison Population
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News
Freeing Marissa Alexander
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
One Month After Historic Hunger Strike Ends, Legislators Hold Hearings About Solitary Confinement
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
What Awaits Chelsea Manning as She Begins Her Sentence as the Military's First Openly Trans Woman?
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Gang Instigation Alleged in California Prison Hunger Strike; Force-Feeding Possible
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
California Hunger Strikers Enter Third Week, Face Retaliation
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Pelican Bay Two Years Later: Those Still Buried Alive Vowing Hunger Strike "Till the End"
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold Onto Their Children
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
"Going Extinct Is Genocide": Lakota Elders Tour to Raise Awareness About Struggle
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Op-Ed
Closing Cages: People Power Helps Stop Youth Incarceration
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
States Cut Prison Budgets but Not Prison Populations
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Community Leads its Own Relief Efforts in the Rockaways
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Rediscovering the Power and Utility of Selma James
By Victoria Law, New Clear Vision | Op-Ed
In US Since Age 10, But No Dream Act for Young Activist Who Helps Others
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
No Justice When Women Fight Back
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Pelican Bay Prison: One Year Later, Policy Remains "Debrief or Die"
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Absent Compassionate Release, Austerity Helps Some Terminally Ill Prisoners Obtain Freedom
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Occupy Prisons: "We Must Not Turn Our Backs on Each Other…"
By Victoria Law, New Clear Vision | News Analysis
Oral History Collection Gives Voice to Incarcerated Women
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Book Review
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: How a Prison Sentence Can Become a Death Sentence
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
California Prison Hunger Strike Ends, Conditions of "Immense Torture" Continue
By Victoria Law, Truthout | Report
Anti-Transgender Violence: How Hate-Crime Laws Have Failed
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Martori Farms: Abusive Conditions at a Key Wal-Mart Supplier
By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis