Angela Hattery

Professor of Women & Gender Studies, co-director Center for the Study & Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware

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In this @TIME op-ed, @smithea1 & @AngelaHattery (@UDelaware) explain that Black women bear a disproportionate share of domestic violence's lethal consequences, while Black communities receive a fraction of the prevention resources they need.

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[Angela Hattery @AngelaHattery]

https://t.co/FyQLr2i3Gc I found the use of the term 'scalp' in the headling--a reference to the genocidal history in the US-- to be quite offensive and racist. @semaforben @semafor

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[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

And that my friends, is how it happens — how someone goes in on a nickel & dime charge & doesn’t get out. For those who think you just do your time, obey the rules and go home – guess again.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Since I’d refused gang membership, no one would come to my defense. I was advised to start sharpening a knife and to keep it with me at all times. After that, it was on, if I was to stay alive.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Next morning, I learned that I’d injured two high-ranking gang members & that a “green light” had been put out on me – that I was to be killed on sight – by a gang of about a hundred guys looking to make their bones.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Knuckles bolted from the cell, stumbling out into the tier bars. Copper was on his knees covering his head with his arms. I stopped when I saw how badly his head was bleeding.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Copper punched me in the forehead. But he stumbled, and I hit him hard and solid above his right ear. I swung again and hit him in the head, and then I began swinging fast and hard at both Copper and Knuckles, connecting easily.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

I saw Knuckles tense up and I knew what was up. Fear, anger, disgust and panic flooded my veins, and I grabbed the wooden brush handle and swung it at Knuckles, who was the bigger of the two. I clocked him in the cheek. He dropped down, holding his face. The gophers took off.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

They started making small talk, asking me stupid questions. I tried to appear calm. But when I told Copper his questions didn’t make sense, he laughed, and said, “No, no, baby. What I mean is -- a pretty young thing like you needs someone to take care of him.”

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

They were all smiles, but my adrenaline was pumping, and my eyes sought the long-handled wooden toilet brush in the corner. I recognized two of them as gang members. The one in charge was Copper Slim, and his second in command was called Knuckles. The other two were gophers.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

It was one evening that it all unraveled. I’d gotten up to wash my hands when four cons strolled into my cell without permission. Going into a cell without permission was not how things were done. Something was very wrong.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

After a year went by, I started counting down the weeks, days and minutes till I got out. I tried not to get ahead of myself, though, as I had to stay very focused. But when I was looking at 8 months to go, I couldn’t help dreaming of home –– my girlfriend, my job, my family.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Out in the yard, I witnessed knife fights, gang huddles, and walked through pools of blood. I refused a gang invitation, kept my head down and said nothing. I was so scared and lonely. At night, I lay on my bunk, listening to the radio my dad had given me.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

The sentence was actually supposed to have been suspended, but the judge didn’t like my apology, so I wound up at the Nevada State Prison. When I got there, I was terrified. I was thrown in with about 600 hardened convicts, many in for life. I was the youngest one in the place.

[Frank De Palma @FrankDePalma9]

Hello friends, I thought I’d share how it all started for me: Almost 50 years ago, before the nightmare of my 43-year incarceration began, I was a 19-year-old kid serving what was supposed to be 2 years in prison for a non-violent offense.

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On August 9, a Female Indian Doctor was raped and murdered outside of the hospital where she worked. Here's what you should know.