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'Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story,' premieres Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8/7c on Lifetime Woman Who Endured 4 Years of Captivity and Torture in Garage Speaks Out, as Harrowing Ordeal Becomes a ...
Two women have opened up about the judgment they regularly face after finding love in arguable one of the least romantic places—prison.Paige Nicole and Gigi Taylor said “I do” to two ...
Los Angeles born-and-raised author Keeonna Harris details her experience as a parent with an incarcerated partner in her memoir, 'Mainline Mama.'
For several years, Wally Lamb taught writing skills to inmates at the York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Niantic, Connecticut. The book contains personal stories written by the inmates dealing with their lives. Most were sexually, physically, or mentally abused, and came from impoverished backgrounds.
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (titled Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison in some editions) is a 2010 memoir by American author Piper Kerman, which tells the story of her money laundering and drug trafficking conviction and subsequent year spent in a federal women's prison. [1]
The case is documented in the book Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box (1989), by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, [43] and referenced in Kathy Reichs's novel Monday Mourning (2004). [44] An updated version of Stan's story, Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life by Jim Green, was published in 2009. [45]
Getting medical care has been a constant battle for the women. One of the inmates, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, has life-threatening heart and lung conditions.
Although women form a minority in the global prison population, the population of incarcerated women is growing at a rate twice as fast as the male prison population. [5] Those imprisoned in China, Russia, and the United States comprise the great majority of incarcerated people, including women, in the world. [ 6 ]