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	P.O.V. - What I Want My Words To Do To You . Film Synopsis \| PBS
		Ensler, known for her ability to get women to talk about things that would normally go unspoken, began her work at Bedford by creating a safe and contemplative environment for the women to explore the circumstances that had led them to prison.
		With the cooperation of Bedford Superintendent Elaine Lord, Directors of photography Dyanna Taylor (Common Threads) and Paul Gibson (Paris Is Burning) began to shoot sessions of Ensler's group, as well as the actors' performances.
		The Outside Help Program is a need-based volunteer program attempting to help women at the facility who, either due to mental illness, other disabilities or length of sentence, have never had or have lost all contact with the outside community, resulting in a lack of outside help — such as financial support or monthly packages.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/whatiwant/about.html (1337 words)

	Bedford Hills, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bedford Hills is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Bedford, New York.
		Bedford Hills extends from a business center at the railroad station to farms and estates, eastward along Harris, Babbitt and Bedford Center Roads and south along the Route 117 business corridor toward Mt.
		Bedford Hills is the seat of government of the Town of Bedford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bedford_Hills,_New_York (158 words)

	Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women is a prison in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York, USA.
		It is the largest women's prison in New York State and has hosted many celebrity prisoners, including Pamela Smart, Sante Kimes, and Jean Harris.
		Bedford Hills is one of several New York facilities exclusively for women, the others being Albion Correctional Facility, Bayview Correctional Facility, Beacon Correctional Facility, and Taconic Correctional Facility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bedford_Hills_Correctional_Facility_for_Women (117 words)

	Taconic CF: NYCHS Excerpts of DOCS\|Today Facility Profile
		The women’s prison was to be a distinctively separate unit: the prison inmates had no contact with the reformatory inmates, the latter of whom were eventually transferred to other facilities around the state.
		At the Bedford Hills train station, the women were met by the superintendent, state police, guards and matrons, and were taken to their new home.
		Correction Law Section 611 permits the inmates to keep their babies at either facility for 12 months, with a possible extension of up to 18 months if there is a reasonable assurance the inmate will be released from prison within that time.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/docs2day/taconic.html (1925 words)

	The Town of Bedford New York / The Official Home Page
		Bedford was part of Connecticut in 1697 when a patent fixed the boundaries as a six-mile square and it wasn't until England's King William issued a royal degree in 1700, to settle a boundary dispute, that Bedford became part of New York.
		The original 1680 Bedford settlement was in Bedford Village in the southeastern portion of the Town, with its Village Green and historic buildings dating to the 18th and early 19th centuries.
		The Town of Bedford, with its 39.3 square miles encompassing the hamlets of Bedford Village, Bedford Hills and Katonah, is situated in northern Westchester County with a 2000 census of 18,133 residents.
	www.bedfordny.info /html/home.html (781 words)

	Kathy Boudin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Correctional Facility, the facts of the Brinks Robbery, and her quest for parole.
		By working with the women in the literacy program, Boudin incorporated critical literacy teaching practices into the skills-based curriculum, using the subject of AIDS in prison as a means of linking the women's experiences with their acquisition of literacy skills.
		Forty-four percent of the women in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility were convicted of a drug offense; however, the warden at Riker's Island, which is the largest feeder jail to Bedford Hills, estimates that drugs underlie the incarceration of 95 percent of the female inmates there (Church, 1990).
	www.kathyboudin.com /harvardpr.htm (12728 words)

	Standing Up to the Rampant Abuse of Female Prisoners in America
		While several International Women’s Day events protested the human rights abuses against women in less developed nations, such as the high rate of women as victims of violence and war, the report’s conclusions pointed to the unacknowledged, but proliferating, maltreatment of America’s incarcerated female population.
		The Special Rapporteur [on violence against women] heard of one case where shackles were kept on even during delivery.” A total of 33 states allow the restraint of pregnant woman during transportation to hospitals, while 18 let shackles remaining during the delivery.
		Periodicals such the Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, who runs a column for women in prison, and The Fire Inside, Out of Time, Prison Focus, and Bridges geared specifically as platforms to run the writings of imprisoned women, are one means that activists are helping to build awareness.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0315-04.htm (2026 words)

	About Bedford Hills
		Once known as Bedford Station when the railroad was built in 1847, Bedford Hills extends from the railroad station, to the farms and estates eastwards along Harris and Bedford Center roads, and south along the busy Route 117 business corridor toward Mt. Kisco.
		Bedford Hills is one of the three hamlets that make up the Town of Bedford.
		Bedford Hills is also the site of the largest women's prison in New York State, which opened its doors in 1901.
	www.bedfordhills.org /about.htm (392 words)

	The Body: The Rocky Road Home
		It reaches into the women's jails and prisons, the parole and probation offices, the foster care system, drug and alcohol rehabs, AIDS service organizations, the medical and mental health systems -- all of the institutions that touch the lives of women caught up in and emerging from the criminal justice system.
		It seemed clear that women in prison -- over 90 percent of whom are fl or Latina, most with histories of intravenous drug use and/or exchanging sex for drugs -- were a population very much at risk for HIV and very much in need of transitional services aimed at their special needs.
		Issue number one for many of the women coming out of the correctional system is to be reunited with their children.
	www.thebody.com /bp/mar99/rocky.html (2135 words)

	Correctional Service of Canada - Understanding Violence By Women: A Review of the Literature
		For these women, as well as others, there may be value in programmes which can help to develop understanding of women's use of anger and aggression, and about how they can be used constructively in our lives, as well as dealing with the grief accompanying violence.
		It locates women's use of violence within their own experience of violence and focusses on understanding abusive behaviour, helping to identify pre-violence cues, developing self-awareness of their own learning experiences as women, on self-esteem and the management of anger.
		Since it is based on the experiences of women offenders it provides valuable resource material for a variety of programmes including those concerned with family violence and women's use of anger.
	www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/prgrm/fsw/fsw23/fsw23e06_e.shtml (3947 words)

	The Children's Centre -Bedford Hills Correctional Facility/Le Centre pour enfants a l'etablissement correctionnel ...
		In 1930, Auburn Prison for women closed and the women were moved to Bedford Hills across the road from the reformatory.
		Some women in prison fantasize about being good mothers while the pressures of the street are safely out of the way, but if they can give their baby a good beginning year, even that can be a plus for the child, and ultimately for society.
		If the facility medical department and the Superintendent feel that the woman is potentially dangerous to her child or other children, she is not permitted to keep her child with her.
	www.fcnetwork.org /4thnorth/children.html (6911 words)

	New York Misc. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her days at Bedford Hills were broken down into modules, several hours at a time, where she was required to be in classes or working.
		It was hard for her to watch from her office as women would leave the prison gates in their street clothes, to watch the bus pull in and take these women away from Bedford Hills.
		Warren treats her memories of Bedford Hills not only with a mixture of regret and anger, but also with the knowledge that she could be sent back at any time for violating parole, even unintentionally.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/misc/prison.asp (3049 words)

	Breast Cancer Fund Press Releases - The Breast Cancer Fund
		The women have rallied behind walkathon organizer Dr. Carolyn Subin, the facility’s Mental Health Unit program director, who will scale Mt. Rainier, Wash., with a team of 40 breast cancer survivors and their supporters in July.
		The Bedford Hills Correctional Facility team members have also volunteered to raise money by asking their friends and family to contribute in support of their “climb.”
		In the past 50 years, a women’s lifetime risk of breast cancer more than tripled in the United States, to one in seven today.
	www.breastcancerfund.org /site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=1745617&ct=1122099 (514 words)

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		Scope of the problem There are a variety of correctional programs struggling to address public safety and the needs of women under criminal justice supervision and their young children who live in America's communities.
		With the number of women from diverse ethnic and cultural groups in the justice system increasing each year, it is important to remember that these programs may not work as well for differing cultural groups.
		Institute for Women's Policy Research 1701 L Street, NW, Suite 750 Washington, DC 20036 202-785-5100 http://www.iwpr.org/ The National Council for Research on Women provides leadership and a forum on gender specific issues, and is part of an alliance of women's studies research and policy centers.
	www.ncjrs.org /txtfiles1/bja/190352.txt (16524 words)

	Inez Nathaniel Walker: Visionary Folk Artist
		Presenting the early years of Inez Nathaniel-Walker's art; the drawings she made at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Bedford Hills, NY in the early 1970s.
		It was while confined at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (formerly known as Westfield State Farm) in Westchester County, New York State that she began to draw.
		One day in early 1971 Elizabeth Bayley, a teacher of remedial English at the prison for women, found several drawings that had been anonymously left in a pile on a chair in her classroom and discovered they were done by Inez, a student in her class.
	www.inezwalker.com (1538 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ensler, since 1998, has been holding writing workshops for the women, which the purpose is for the women to come to terms with their transgressions as well as themselves.
		For example, the first writing exercise is, “Describe the facts of your crime.” With this, we are introduced to inmate Keila Pulinario who couldn’t believe a guy she trusted raped her and later on, he came at her with a knife, which led to her shooting him.
		With the many women that are profiled, they have much to share among their group.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?Id=3812 (715 words)

	Heartland Film Festival - Film Details
		The Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum-security prison, is the setting for this documentary about a writing group led by internationally-celebrated playwright, Eve Ensler.
		As the women participate in writing exercises, they and the audience are forced to examine the inmates’ crimes, their guilt and their futures.
		Since visiting Eve Ensler’s writing class at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and conceiving the idea for the film, she has started, along with Melissa Newman, a theatre workshop within the prison.
	www.heartlandfilmfestival.org /2003/film_details.aspx?filmID=23 (298 words)

	Local: 10 years later: Where are they now?
		However, press reports indicate he is serving his 40-years-to-life jail term, with 12 years deferred, at a correctional facility in Maine.
		While the state Department of Corrections would also not verify his current whereabouts, Randall is also thought to be serving his 40-years-to-life sentence, with 12 years deferred, in Maine.
		He received a 30-years-to-life sentence, with 12 years deferred, and is serving them at a facility that the state Department of Corrections refused to identify.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/6_11e.htm (758 words)

	Mercy for Mom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marie is currently working as a caregiver in the Children's Center at Bedford Hills and I am her Supervisor...
		Marie was originally chosen to work in The Children's Center because of her excellent reputation.
		She should be sent to her home to be with her family, to contribute to her community and church and to be the role model of a strong family-oriented and loving grandmother to her grandchildren...
	www.mercyformom.org /esposito.html (221 words)

	Correctional Association
		Women in N.Y. prisons seek better child custody protections
		Independent Inspection Challenges Conditions of Confinement at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York State
		Advocates for Women in Prison Take Their Case to Albany
	www.correctionalassociation.org /general/ca-news.htm (697 words)

	NPR's 'Weekend Edition Saturday' Profiles Prenatal Care Program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The program is meant to foster relationships between women and their newborns, which provides the infants a "better start" and incentives for women to "stay straight," according to NPR.
		Mary Byrne of Columbia University, who is evaluating the success of the nursery program, said the infants at Bedford Hills "do as well as babies in any other setting" and are "not challenged at all in any negative way." Her research is expected to be completed in 2007.
		For any corrections of factual information, or to contact the editors please use our feedback form.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=33223&nfid=mnf (249 words)

	Gerald Peary - film reviews - What I Want My Words
		The film (co-directed by Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, and Gary Sunshine) shows Ensler in class, chairs in a circle, guiding her prisoner students, most of whom are long-term to life, to construct their own autobiographical monologues.
		The last two are ex-Weather Underground members, Kathy Boudin and Judy Clark, who, behind bars for several decades, have never stopped contemplating their murderous activities as fiery youths militantly protesting the Vietnam War.
		When she reads her monologue to the group, she claims, breathlessly, that "I've never said any of this before." But she delivers the same unpersuasive story she's been offering up for a decade, including in TV network interviews: though foolish, I'm innocent.
	www.geraldpeary.com /reviews/wxyz/what-i-want.html (650 words)

	V-Day: Two Star-Studded Benefits on Two Coasts with One Mission: to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
		V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, announced today its two showcase benefits of the season.
		The V-Day NYC and V-Day LA benefit events are part of the global movement to end violence against women and girls’ 2003 benefit season, which features over 1000 V-Day benefit productions of "The Vagina Monologues" around the world.
		In 2003, more than 1000 V-Day benefit events - produced by local volunteer activists - are scheduled around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls and raising funds for local groups within their communities.
	www.vday.org /contents/vday/press/releases/030207 (832 words)

	Middle Collegiate Church Performing Arts Outreach Ministry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But once the congregation of women entered, women dressed in drab green clothing, women clutching well worn, highlighted Bibles, women with expectation in their eyes and praise on their lips, the chapel was transformed.
		This particular visit to the Bedford facility grew out of the Toys for Children of Women in Prison project in which Middle participated with Riverside Church last year.
		Dean Hubbard didn't specifically have the women at Bedford in mind when he thought up the idea of an outreach ministry for the gospel choir.
	www.middlechurch.org /arts2.html (747 words)

	National Council for Research on Women
		We honor her for her artistic excellence, her integrity, and her work to encourage all women to express themselves through the arts.
		Close's work with the College Bound Program at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women has been instrumental in expanding public awareness of the power of education and the need for programs to ameliorate the conditions that lead to incarceration.
		Her readings of works written by incarcerated women - most recently at the NET OF SOULS benefit at Lincoln Center - have helped to transport the unheard voices from inside prison walls to the stage, and draw the attention of other artists and the public throughout the region and around the world..
	www.ncrw.org /interest/close.htm (194 words)

	Corrections Facility Convex Mirror - by Duravision
		CFM (Corrections Facility Mirror) polycarbonate convex mirror was initially designed for in cell observation.
		With the strength of polycarbonate combined with our unique frame design ensures that this product is virtually unbreakable, tamper resistant and ligature free.
		Following on the tremendous success of the in-cell convex mirror range, these mirrors have been introduced to provide significant improvement in observation throughout the corrections facility.
	www.correctionsmirror.com (104 words)

	Prisoners and Families Clinic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An additional prisoner-education component of the program is managed collaboratively with small groups of prisoners incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional facility, a women's prison, and Green Haven Correctional Facility, a men's prison.
		These groups facilitate the work of the clinic students in teaching legal workshops on parental rights and responsibilities to incarcerated mothers and fathers.
		He serves on the Family Court Advisory and Rules Committee to the Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New York; the Advisory Group of the National Institute of Corrections, Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners; and the Coalition for Women in Prison of the New York Correctional Association.
	www.law.columbia.edu /focusareas/clinics/prisoners (538 words)

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