The author asserts that centering women’s histories in prisoners’ rights litigation is necessary for organizing among various feminist and anti-racist networks and creating a more complex picture of the rights implicated in prisoners’ rights claims. The author relies on first-person oral accounts, first, to shed light on Crooks v Warne in 1974, which challenged the practice of solitary confinement; the uprising at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women; and the ensuing Armstrong v Ward and Powell v Ward cases. The author then argues that women’s contributions to the prisoners’ rights movement are broadly transferable to modern critiques of the criminal justice system and should be used to inform future movements. Finally, the author warns of the causes and consequences of marginalizing women’s contributions to prisoner’s litigation. Centering women’s histories, she argues, is critical to moving beyond the stereotypical experiences and identifying the multiple harms inflicted on people in prisons.