Women Locked Up: Conversation on violence, organizing, & necessary change

20/12/2020 1h 0min
Women Locked Up: Conversation on violence, organizing, & necessary change

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Episode Synopsis

Indigo host Anna Mullany spends the hour with Ashley Messier from the Women's Justice and Freedom Initiative and Karen Tronsgard-Scott of the VT Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Ashley and Karen talk about the conditions and abuses at Chittenden correctional facility - the only women's facility in the state; abolition vs reform; intimate partner violence; restorative justice; and how community can get involved to make change.