The lives of incarcerated women shackled and working together on an actual prison chain gang. 00:00 Episode 1...more.

Chain gang street sweepers, Washington, D. C. 1909 Female convicts in Dar es Salaam chained together by their necks, c. 1890–1927. A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.

2016年1月21日 · This chapter addresses the misdemeanant experience of black convict women in New South Georgia. Such an experience has proven that chain gangs are “worse than slavery.” Like female felons, minor offenders' lives were distinguished by perennial work routines, cosmic exploitation, and neglect.

2012年6月28日 · With a few exceptions, chain gangs were abandoned in the U.S. by 1955. But Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes metropolitan Phoenix, reintroduced the practice in 1995, and today the county...

2012年7月1日 · Yesterday, the Guardian ran a gallery of Jim Lo Scalzo‘s photographs of a female chain-gang in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona. To people who are unfamiliar with the chain-gangs, established by the controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio (the self-titled “Toughest Sheriff in America”), Lo Scalzo’s images may be a shock.

2012年11月27日 · Up at 5am and dressed in prison stripes, they march to order and labour in temperatures of 40°C. Nigel Farndale meets members of the world’s only female chain gang – the pride of 'America’s...

2012年6月29日 · For the women of American's only all-female chain gang, the day starts early at 6am. After being padlocked together at the ankles of their heavy-duty work boots and dressed in the familiar...

Georgia’s Jim Crow carceral regime produced women every day, and all of the women were white. That is, Georgia’s 1908 law establishing chain gangs to replace the notorious convict lease system codified “woman” and “female” as racially specific subject positions.

2011年1月2日 · Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who oversees the police force in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes the city of Phoenix, has re-introduced chain gangs for women prisoners after an earlier experiment...

2018年10月4日 · The Estrella Jail houses what is thought to be the only female chain gang in the U.S. Inmates worked chained together to clean up public areas and buried the county’s unclaimed dead bodies in the White Tanks Cemetery.