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Is it cold in here?:
Now going through the books Michael Santos wrote during his 27 years in Federal prisons, which are a bit more real than Orange is the New Black (the book).
If the system were designed to perpetuate itself by encouraging recidivism, it would look much like it does today. For example, having his studies for a degree interrupted by an "education" supervisor who forbade receiving books from the university wasn't conducive to preparing for a career outside.
Ditto policies that take away visiting privileges for months or years for minor breaches of regulations, cutting off the outside support network that's vital to staying out after release.
One side conclusion is to stay a million miles from the drug trade. One of Piper Kerman's fellow inmates was serving four years for answering her boyfriend's phone and taking messages from his customers.
ThePerilsOfDan:
Muster by J P Fahey
Is it cold in here?:
Inside This Place, Not Of it
Narratives From Women's Prisons
Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman
It's mistitled. The cover should simply say "TRIGGER WARNING". This book is the most painful sustained reading I've done in ten or fifteen years.
The horrors almost always begin long before the criminal record does. Over and over and over, the women were derailed in childhood by abuse. They're left unable to control their emotions, unable to assert themselves when a "friend" asks them to be an accomplice, unable to live without self-medicating illegally. Thus they are launched into the prison pipeline.
Some of them killed abusers, in circumstances that my training says were open and shut self-defense.
Once in prison, further sexual abuse is common, and medical neglect to the point of malpractice or beyond apparently universal.
Don't read this unless you have extraordinary emotional defense mechanisms.
Blue Kitty:
Finished A Wake of Vultures and now I'm on to The Brothers Cabal.
sitnspin:
Reading "The Varieties of Scientific Experience" by Carl Sagan.
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