{"product_id":"inside-this-place-not-of-it-narratives-from-womens-prisons-paperback","title":"Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAyelet Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobin Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichelle Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential reading\" on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of \u003ci\u003eOrange is the New Black\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheresa, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnna, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTeri, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Levi\u003c\/b\u003e 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 US state prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ayelet Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Other Impossible Pursuits\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaughter's Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRed Hook Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBad Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently \u003ci\u003eLove and Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Michelle Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and went on to direct the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770120044832,"sku":"9781786632289","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16b799c48a5e6ca4912f5ce009b23828.webp?v=1780364892","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/inside-this-place-not-of-it-narratives-from-womens-prisons-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}