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Articles

Addressing Women's Incarceration: A National Survey of State Commissions and Task Forces on Women in the Criminal Justice System

Women, Harm Reduction, and HIV

The Sentencing Projects Shares New Insight on Women in the Criminal Justice System

Drug Policy Alliance Files Amicus Brief to Challenge the Criminalization of Pregnant Women Struggling with Substance Abuse – State of New Mexico v. Martinez

Cracked Lenses: The Visual Exploitation of Crack Mothers

Book Chapters

Women: Research and Policy: Part I

Bookstore

Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System

With Child: Substance Use During Pregnancy: A Woman-Centred Approach

Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women

From the Inside: Dispatches from a Women's Prison

From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy

Documents

SM 19: Building Healthy Families by Promoting Drug Treatment

Buprenorphine and the Women's Prison Pilot Project

State of NM v. Martinez Amicus Brief

New Mexico Women's Prison Treatment Project FAQs

Regina McKnight vs. South Carolina, in the Supreme Court of the United States, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari

Legal

Whitner v. South Carolina, Amicus brief from the Lindesmith Center

Whitner vs South Carolina, Appendix of the Amicus brief from the Lindesmith Center

Whitner vs South Carolina, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari: Opinion

Letters

Letter to Texas District Attorney Randall Sims on the Arrest of Pregnant Women for Child Abuse (Sign-On Letter)

News Articles

Court to Consider Whether Doctors, Cops Should Cooperate to Prosecute Pregnant Women

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case Against Hospital and Police for Wrongfully Arresting and Jailing Pregnant Women and New Moms

News Summaries

Victory in New Mexico Supreme Court

Alliance Work on Behalf of Pregnant Women Bears Fruit

Alliance Activists Take Part in Historic Women's March

Proponents Of Addict Sterilization Trying To Revitalize Campaign

Coalition for Jubilee Clemency to Continue Lobbying the New Bush Administration

Press Releases

Supreme Court of New Mexico Strikes Down State’s Attempt to Convict Woman Struggling with Addiction During Pregnancy

State of the Art Medication Assisted Drug Treatment Program Heads to Gov. Richardson’s Desk

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees That Searching and Arresting Pregnant Women at Hospital Violates United States Constitution

Released Drug-War Prisoner to Speak at Women's Forum

New York Mothers of Prisoners to Meet with Governor Gary Johnson in New Mexico

Reports

The Punitiveness Report - HARD HIT: The Growth in Imprisonment of Women, 1977-2004

TRIAD Drug Treatment Evaluation Project: Final Report of Three-Year Outcomes

Meeting the Challenge: Ending Treatment Disparities for Women of Color

Collateral Casualties: Children of Incarcerated Drug Offenders in New York

Life Sentences: Denying Welfare Benefits to Women Convicted of Drug Offenses

Statements

Policy Issues Concerning Women Offenders and Their Children

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