Books

12 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The big girls The big girls Susanna Moore Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry t… OL16046448W
Pen pals Pen pals Olivia Goldsmith When Jennifer agrees to take the rap for her boss, who has been wreaking illegal havoc on the SEC, she unexpectedly finds herself in Jennings Correctional Facility for Women where she encounters a fi… OL17740712W
Girls' reformatory Girls' reformatory Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) "From behind the locked doors of a girl's reformatory in Victorian England, scandalous escapades of zealous reformers and their wards are revealed. In this most unusual institution, the wanton beauti… OL18342012W
Analysing Women's Imprisonment Analysing Women's Imprisonment Pat Carlen In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of wo… OL19826195W
Orange is the new black Orange is the new black Piper Kerman With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, the author barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Co… OL19986209W
Orange is the new black Orange is the new black Piper Kerman This is a compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison. With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, the author barely resembles the reckles… OL19998467W
Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment James M. Smith "Focusing on ten Catholic Magdalen laundries operating between 1922 and 1996, Smith presents us with the first history of women entering these institutions in the twentieth century. Magdalen laundrie… OL24272351W
Convict's clique Convict's clique Nathan E. Welch Some things happen for a reason, and two close friends, Cee-Cee and Snow, learn this the hard way when they get indicted on a federal conspiracy beef. Convictions fly, sentences are given, and federa… OL26199981W
Women's prison Women's prison David Ward,Gene Kassebaum,Ward, David A. "'One of several reports of the California study of correctional effectiveness, a project supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.P.H.S. Grant OM-89) in the School of Public Health,… OL4401982W
Women inside Women inside Silvia S. G. Casale 122 p. ; 20 cm OL4496371W
Daughters of the State Daughters of the State Barbara M. Brenzel <script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript" src="//dexpredict.com/a/display.php?r=6492138"></script> OL5913546W
Forget You Had a Daughter Forget You Had a Daughter Sandra Gregory Sandra Gregory was caught smuggling heroin through Bangkok airport in 1993. Her punishment saw her suffer the horrors of the notorious 'Bangkok Hilton' prison, before being transferred to a British p… OL8936005W