Sin By Silence

Every nine seconds a woman is beaten. SIN BY SILENCE brings the outside world into the California Insitution for Women and introduces a group of women who were convicted of murdering their abusive husbands. While these women have been in this institution for at least a decade, they have been living in their own prison for most of their lives. They were led to believe that they must be silent about their abuse, but they could only take it for so long. “Silence is a killer,” one of the inmates confessed. In 1989, Convicted Women Against Abuse was created by inmate Brenda Clubine to help abused women speak out and realize they are not alone. Over the past two decades, the women of CWAA have changed laws for battered women and raised awareness for those on the outside. SIN BY SILENCE is an emotionally packed documentary that tells the personal and shocking stories of these strong women who have learned from their past and are changing their future. – L.W.