“This is my lived experience,” Muhammad said. “I’m formerly incarcerated, I
spent a lot of my Childhood in different systems and I had no idea about the
beast that communities of color are fighting. My mother didn't know about the
schooI-to-prison…
Photo by Isadora Kosofsky @isadorakosofsky, part of an ongoing series
documenting bonding visits between children and their incarcerated parents
at eight men’s and women’s prisons in Florida.
According to the Correctional Association of New York’s most recent
statistics, “as of June 2006, 203,100 women were in state or federal prisons
or local jails, just under 10% of the total US. prison and jail population”—more
than two million. In New…