Cristina Rathbone
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The number of men in American prisons has doubled in the past 20 years; the number of women incarcerated in the U.S. now approaching a million has quintupled during the same period. Journalist Rathbone (On the Outside Looking In) fought in the courts for years to secure access to these women, and her passion and tenacity are on display in this sympathetic but clear-eyed account of life inside Massachusetts's MCI-Framingham, the oldest women's prison...