Journalist and author Justine van der Leun's new book, "Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment and Extraordinary Survival," examines the criminal legal system's tendency to crimin...

Justine van der Leun introduces her work to surface the lived experiences of over 1,000 women imprisoned for surviving assault and abuse.

TC Brooks served decades before her sentence was commuted. Justine van der Leun’s new book, Unreasonable Women, tells her story and those of other criminalized survivors.

When I first began reporting on incarcerated women, I was fascinated by studies that showed that showed that upwards of 70 percent of women in jails and prisons were subjected to intimate partner…

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

A groundbreaking account of how the legal system punishes those it purports to protect, told through the stories of three unforgettable womenWhen award-winni...

Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival