Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. She is the author of "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women" (PM Press 2009), the editor of the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison and a co-founder of Books Through Bars - NYC. She is currently working on transforming "Don't Leave Your Friends Behind," a zine series on how radical movements can support the families in their midst, into a book.
Other articles by this author
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