Alissa Kamholz, a female inmate sentenced 39 years to life under California’s three-strikes law, said that prison was once her “safe place” away from male offenders who raped and abused her throughout her childhood. That was, until a new California law forced her to live with a man who used to frequent the same gang clubhouse she was routinely abused in as a child.
From behind bars, Kamholz spoke with IWF in an exclusive phone interview to share what it’s really like for a currently incarcerated woman to be repeatedly re-traumatized and abandoned by a prison system that prides itself on its “commitment to rehabilitation” and “positive experiences.”
In IWF’s new documentary mini-series, Cruel & Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Female Prisons, current and formerly incarcerated women, along with insiders and whistleblowers from the correctional world, are bravely sharing the fallout of policies that allow male offenders-including convicted sex offenders-to declare themselves “women” and be housed with females.
Produced by: Kelsey Bolar & Andrea Mew
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