Recent news reports detail a pattern of horrifying abuse at Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Artists Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward, whose work appears on the cover of Signs’s special issue on Women, Gender, and Prison are inmates in this institution. Their work, their artists’s statement, and their bios are testimony to their extraordinary courage and resilience. Signs extends all good wishes to these artists, to all the inmates at the Tutwiler Prison for Women, and to the feminist and civil rights activists fighting for justice in sentencing and for humane prison conditions.
