Shawnee Control Unit: A Control Unit for Women

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Recent campaigns against control units have ignored or obscured the use of control units against women and important milestones in the history of control units for example the Cardinal Unit at Alderson and the Lexington Control Unit. This writing challenges this tendency by focusing on Shawnee Control Unit at Marianna Prison in Florida. Psychological control, white supremacy and racism, super-exploitation of women's labor, the use of violence against women in prison, and misogyny and homophobia