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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men's incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer populations. As such, women lifers are easy to overlook, discount, and diminish as such a small group. Many women lifers perceive themselves as a forgotten...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the "Blonde Tigress" and "the most dangerous woman alive." Using recently unearthed records, Pettem reveals how Jarman got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, was convicted as an accomplice to murder, and in 1940 escaped prison to become America's longest-running female fugitive"--
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Inside this place, not of it reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle once inside"--Cover, page [4]