This emotional collection is currently on view at this year’s Photoville festival in New York City and will be staffed by a few of the women featured in the portraits who have since been released from prison. Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences is the culmination of this work and offers a powerful portrait of the US criminal justice system today. To help bring attention to these women’s stories, Bennett began collecting their portraits and having each of them share personal stories of incarceration. Most of these women were denied parole, not based on their progress, but rather the nature of their poor decisions some decades earlier. While practicing law for 20 years, Bennett saw hundreds of women seemingly fully rehabilitated after serving a lengthy time behind bars. ![]() Sara Bennett is a former criminal defense lawyer who began practicing photography as a way to bring a human face to women serving life sentences in prison.
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