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Orange is the new black

my year in a woman's prison
2011
The author provides an account of her thirteen months in a minimum security correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she was sent after being convicted on a ten-year-old charge of drug smuggling and money laundering in 2003, offering insights into the heirarchies, communities, and friendships that characterize the women's prison.

The floating brothel

the extraordinary true story of an eighteenth-century ship and its cargo of female convicts
2002
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.

Daughter's keeper

2003
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.

Grey is the color of hope

1988
An account of a Soviet poet's four years spent in a labor camp.

Orange is the new black

my year in a women's prison
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.

Women in prison

a reference handbook
2003
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.

Couldn't keep it to myself

testimonies from our imprisoned sisters
2003

Joyce Ann Brown

justice denied
1990

Ravensbr?ck

everyday life in a women's concentration camp, 1939-45
2000
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.

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