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Inside This Place, Not of It
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Inside This Place, Not of It

Narratives from Women's Prisons
E-bookEPUBAdobe DRM [Hard-DRM]E-book
EUR18,99

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Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside- ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781786632296
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
FormatReflowable
PublisherVerso US
Publication townLondon
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date01/08/2017
EditionEbook UK & RoW
LanguageEnglish
File size716086 Bytes
Article no.8220262
CatalogsVC
Data source no.1541181
Product groupBU721
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Ayelet Waldman is the bestselling author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper, Red Hook Road, Bad Mother, and, most recently Love and Treasure. She has also written for the New York Times, Vogue, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

Robin Levi is a consultant working in the field of human rights, and she is the former human rights director at Justice Now. While a staff attorney at the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, she documented sexual abuse of women in U.S. state prisons.

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, a civil rights advocate and writer, and the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

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