Volume 44, Number 2 · February 6, 1997

The New Equality

By Murray Kempton
All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons

Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project, 347 pp., $20.00 (paper)

When bedtime comes for the guests at the prison California delicately identifies as its Central Women's Facility, the loudspeaker is reported not infrequently to announce, 'All you bitches and whores, get into your rooms.'



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