women prisoners

Draws from court documents, letters, and journals to tell the story of the 237 women convicts, most petty criminals, who sailed from England to Sydney Cove in Australia's New South Wales in July 1789 to provide the colony's men with sexual favors and children, focusing on the relationship between convict Sarah Whitelam and the ship's steward John Nicol.

When Olivia makes a terrible mistake, she is forced to turn to the mother who has never come through for Olivia before, but without her mother's help, Olivia's future hangs in the balance.

An account of a Soviet poet's four years spent in a labor camp.

Follows the author's incarceration for drug trafficking, during which she gained a unique perspective on the criminal justice system and met a varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances.

This book includes a comprehensive history of women in prison, an examination of issues and controversies that affect women in prison, accounts of women describing in their own words how it feels to be incarcerated, and annotated lists of print and nonprint resources on women's imprisonment.

Describes life at Ravensbr?ck, the only all-female Nazi concentration camp, including the camp's structure, categories of inmates, and such aspects as sickness, punishment, cultural activities, children's experiences, and extermination. Includes illustrations by prisoners.

As a twenty-year-old, Iranian student Zarah Ghahramani, was taken off a Tehran street and put in Evin prison for an infraction. The experience transforms her from a naive Persian girl into a courageous and determined woman.