World Apart Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

Name: World Apart Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
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ISBN: 9780812971095

ISBN-10: 0812971094

ISBN-13: 9780812971095

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cristina Rathbone

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"Life in a women's prison is full of surprises," writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women's prison in America. The picture that emerges is both astounding and enraging. Women reveal the agonies of separation from family, and the prevalence of depression, and of sexual predation, and institutional malaise behind bars. But they also share their more personal hopes and concerns. There is horror in prison for sure, but Rathbone insists there is also humor and romance and downright…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Prologue



Beginnings


Floss


Witches


Mirrors


Sex


Eliza Farnham


Steps



Losses


Mandatories


Jail Babes


Ellen Cheney Johnson


Trailer Time


Appetites


Despair



Escapes


Snowstorms


Circus


Miriam Van Waters


Escapes


Contact


Epilogue


Acknowledgments