The Depth of the Abjectness of Women's Prison

"To be erased is a painful process that I do not think women on this side of the wall are prepared for," she says. "I don't even know how to explain the level of humiliation that's going on." The state has denied many female prisoners breast reductions because they're deemed cosmetic and life-affirming, he adds. She asks: "How insanely degrading and dehumanizing is that? ... Somehow this is life affirming?"