Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences

Sara Bennett, a former public defender, has spent the past 13 years photographing dozens of women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in prison in New York State. Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences collects these intimate portraits of women throughout the prison, in their post-incarceration bedrooms, and making their way in the outside world after decades behind bars. The images are accompanied by the women’s handwritten reflections and ephemera, including Polaroids, letters,...