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Victoria Law

Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist focusing on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars and the co-author of Prison By Any Other Name. Law has written about prisons and other forms of confinement for outlets including the New York Times, The Nation, Wired, and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars--NYC, and long-time editor of the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison. Connect with her at victorialaw.net or on Twitter @LVikkiml.


Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Victoria Law on the Historical Inevitability of the Modern Day Prison System
April 8, 2021  By Victoria Law
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