Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system.
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"Offers an insightful picture of [a] typically forgotten group."--Law & Politics Book Review
"An important new collection of essays."--Intl Socialist Review
"This book is a powerful and impassioned exposition of the realities for incarcerated women."--Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
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"Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new."--Mona Danner, PhD Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
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An okay book.
I was looking for first hand accounts of life in prison. This book does include a few of these, plus some poetry written by inmates. But it also includes lots of boring, tedious articles seemingly intended for prison or social work professionals. Lots of stuff about prison statistics.
Not a lot that I found interesting at all.
Would like to pass this book on to a friend but afraid they wouldn't like either.
I was looking for first hand accounts of life in prison. This book does include a few of these, plus some poetry written by inmates. But it also includes lots of boring, tedious articles seemingly intended for prison or social work professionals. Lots of stuff about prison statistics.
Not a lot that I found interesting at all.
Would like to pass this book on to a friend but afraid they wouldn't like either.
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