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Inside this place, not of it : narratives from women's prisons / compiled and edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman ; associate editor, Rebecca Silbert ; foreword by Michelle Alexander ; research editor, Alex Carp ; assistant research editor, Jessie Hawk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Michelle, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--United States--Case studies.
- Women prisoners.
- Female offenders--United States--Case studies.
- Female offenders.
- Reformatories for women--United States--Case studies.
- Reformatories for women.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource(310 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, [California] : McSweeney's Books, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suffer in relative anonymity. Women Inside addresses this critical social justice issue, empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women to share the stories that have previously been silenced. Among the narrators: - Irma Rodriguez, in prison on drug charges. While in prison in 1990, Irma was diagnosed HIV positive, but after a decade and a half of aggressive and toxic treatment, Irma learned that she never had HIV. - Sheri Dwight, a domestic violence survivor who was sent to prison for attempting to kill her batterer. While in prison, she underwent surgery for abdominal pain and learned more than four years later that she had been sterilized without her consent.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Inside this place, not of it : narratives from women's prisons.
- ISBN:
- 9781940450537
- OCLC:
- 884588847
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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