ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the lives of several Black female characters in the series that were incarcerated for drug abuse. The chapter discusses how female, Black prisoners, who were victims of the prison system and the internal dynamics of imprisonment, endured prison culture while serving their terms. One of the effects of President Nixon's War on Drugs entailed a broad depletion of significant proportions of African American men from the homes and their respective communities through means of differential justice. The Drug Policy Alliance finds that Black women are more than twice as likely – and Latinas are 25 percent more likely – to be incarcerated than White women. The chapter focuses on several dynamic, yet unique women of color, featured in the series that were imprisoned for drug abuse. Many of them have been either physically, emotionally or sexually abused; and many of them have experimented with drugs.
