Title: Women's Jail Project, Madison, Wisconsin, Records
Inclusive Dates: 1976-1992 (bulk 1986-1992)

Creator:

• Women's Jail Project (Madison, Wis.)

Call Number: M97-024

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 2 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTIONS MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Women's Jail Project (WJP), a community volunteer project founded in 1986 to offer support to women inmates in ways such as providing volunteer advocates; assertiveness and self-esteem training; facilitation of communication between inmates and their families, jail administration, the legal system, and social service agencies; and challenges of criminal justice policies and practices that discriminate against poor women and women of color. Includes correspondence from prisoners, staff, and volunteers; articles and clippings on the Project and Dane County jail; newsletters and brochures; volunteer training material; memoranda; handouts given to inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution; research reports; drafts of publications; bibliographies of resources on women prisoners; and tape recordings of a radio program about the Project broadcast on Madison station WTSO.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m97024

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Bonnie Urfer, Luck, Wisconsin, 1997. Accession Number: M97-024

M97-024	Series: Administrative Files
Box   1 Folder   1	Articles of incorporation, 1988
Box   1 Folder   2	Assertiveness Training Group evaluations, 1988
Box   1 Folder   3	Brochures and "The Insider," 1989-1990
Box   1 Folder   4	Clippings about Women's Jail Project (WJP)
Box   1 Folder   5	Closing of WJP, 1992
Box   1 Folder   6	Community networking
Box   1 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1987-1992
Box   1 Folder   8	Crisis counseling
Box   1 Folder   9	Fiscal report, 1988
	Guide to Dane County's Criminal Justice System
Box   1 Folder   10	1st edition
Box   1 Folder   11	2nd edition
Box   1 Folder   12	Invisible Voices program / WTSO Radio
Box   1 Folder   13	National networking
Box   1 Folder   14	Service organizations in Dane County
Box   1 Folder   15	Volunteer advocate weekly follow-up reports
Box   1 Folder   16	Volunteer training packet
	Series: Subject Files	⇧
Box   1 Folder   17	Bibliography: Women and criminal justice
Box   1 Folder   18	Chicago Legal Aid to Incarcerated Mothers
Box   1 Folder   19	Correctional Health Advisory Committee, 1991
Box   1 Folder   20	Dane County Prison Facilities
Box   1 Folder   21	"Inmate Mothers: Caught Between the Rock (the Social Service System) and the Hard Place (the Criminal Justice System)" / by Iris Christensen, 1990
Box   1 Folder   22	Lythcott Prison health care evaluation report, 1976
Box   1 Folder   23	Taycheedah Correctional Institution
Box   2 Folder   1	Taycheedah Correctional Institution inmate handouts
Box   2 Folder   2	Volunteer Advocate Training Manual
Box   2 Folder   3	Wisconsin Equal Justice Task Force, 1989
Box   2 Folder   4-5	Women in prison articles
Box   2 Folder   6	"Women in prison: how much community risk?" / Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, 1986
	Series: Audio Recordings	⇧
1885A/1-2	"Invisible Voices: Women in the Dane County Jail" / WTSO Radio; hosted by Diana Simmons?