The farm: life inside a women's prison

The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison

📁 The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison

✍ Andi Rierden 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 University of Massachusetts Press 🌐 English

Written by a journalist, this book depicts the day-to-day struggles and concerns of inmates a the Connecticut Correctional Institution in Niantic (renamed the Janet S. York correctional Institution), the state's only prison for women. Build in 1917 as a work farm for prostitutes, unwed mothers, a

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

📁 The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

✍ Dr Amanda Brown 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest women's prison. From the drug addicts who call Amanda 'the mother I never had' to the women who've pushed back at domestic

A Lifer's Journey: Prison Chaplaincy fro

📁 A Lifer's Journey: Prison Chaplaincy from the Inside Out

✍ Hank Dixon 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Prairie Heart Press 🌐 English

"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)When his walk with God began, Hank Dixon was facing a life sentence for murder. Little did he realize, God's grace would not only set him on a path to encount

If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women

📁 If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

✍ Anna Muller 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brough

If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women

📁 If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

✍ Anna Meuller 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 Polish

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brough

Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Ins

📁 Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison

✍ K.C. Carceral (editor); Thomas J. Bernard (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 New York University Press 🌐 English

Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, n