I had worked with women behind bars, directed eight plays in the women’s prison in Massachusetts, and written about that work. Youtube gives us Prison Girls: Life Inside America’s Toughest Women’s Prison, as if women are waiting around to knife each other. We ignore the real struggles that women, most with histories of abuse, face behind bars, and the trauma of living locked up—guarded mostly by men. Ultimately, more than 300 women filed sex abuse charges by 2025, and the prison was shut down. Shutting down one prison wouldn’t stop what women across the county face every day behind bars, but this was a victory.