The incorrigible girl: Inez Garcia and the Hudson Prison for girls

Although Inez Garcia Santos is often remembered through her legal battle and grassroots defense committee, I argue that her 1957 incarceration at the Hudson Prison in New York allows us to uncover historical links between juvenile justice and anti-carceral feminism. Firstly, I illustrate Garcia's relationship to the Hudson Prison through a history of her legal case. Secondly, I trace practices of the Hudson Prison and the symbiotic relationship across juvenile courts, academia and mental health professions that grounded them. Lastly, I investigate how criminalized girls and women, like Garcia, have used self-defense to imagine futures beyond gendered violence, both then and now.