Inside This Place, Not of It

Inside This Place, Not of It
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781786632302
ISBN-13 : 1786632306
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Book Synopsis Inside This Place, Not of It by : Ayelet Waldman

Download or read book Inside This Place, Not of It written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.


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