Posts Tagged ‘Women’s Prison’
Born Behind Bars
In Mexico it is legal for children born to incarcerated mothers to stay inside prison until the age of six. At Santa Martha Acatitla Prison for Women in Mexico City, around 50 children are living among women serving sentences for drug dealing, kidnapping, and murder. Caroline Bennett captures the lives of these women and children on black and white film.
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The House of the Rising Sun
“The House of the Rising Sun” is an American folk song made popular in 1964 by an English band The Animals. The meaning of the song’s lyrics debatedly refer to various New Orleans “houses” – from brothels to plantations to prisons. Folk singer, Dave van Ronk wrote in his autobiography that pictures he had seen of the old New Orleans Prison for Women, showed a rising sun design decorating the entrance. Though the song never mentions it directly, many believe that The House of the Rising sun is in reference to a brothel or a prison:
Well, there is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun. And it’s been the ruin of many a poor girl(boy) and God I know I’m one.
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