Unpacking Incarceration and Abuse
Jessica Hutchison
Episode 08
Unpacking Incarceration and Abuse with Jessica Hutchison
The vast majority of women in prison are survivors of sexual abuse and interpersonal violence. In this episode, we hear from PH.D. candidate, Jessica Hutchison, whose research focuses on the use of strip-searching in women’s prisons. Jessica discusses some of the reasons why survivors of domestic violence go to prison and how their prison experience can cause them to re-live their trauma.
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Episode Resources:
For Indigenous women, systemic racial bias in prison leaves many worse off than men
Over-representation of Indigenous people in federal prisons reaches ‘disturbing’ historic high
“No Choice but to Do It”: Why Women Go to Prison
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