women 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.

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.

Charlee Cox is a spoiled, second-generation prison guard in a minimum-security prison for women. His mother is the warden. She knows her bachelor son is up to something in her prison, but she needs proof before he ruins his life and hers.

Zarah Ghahramani recollects her childhood in Iran, being raised by a family who encouraged her creativity in a country were women were oppressed; and recalls her experiences in Evin Prison, a jail in Tehran where she was subjected to physical and psychological torture for showing her hair in public.

While prison psychiatrist Louise Forrest tries to help female inmate Helen--who blames the voices in her head for the murders of her children and believes that Hollywood starlet Angie Mills is her sister--she copes with her own problems with the actress, who coincidentally is dating her ex-husband and caring for her son.

Noa P. Singleton sits on death row in a maximum security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date. She is visited by a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is a heartbroken mother of the victim and now wants to see the death penalty delayed--if only Noa reveals her motive.

Georgette George has never forgotten her college roommate, Ann Drayton, or the violent argument that ended their friendship, so when Ann is convicted of murder, Georgette begins to delve into her former friend's past in the hopes of discovering what led the young woman to kill.

Nineteen-year-old Miriam, imprisoned in Siberia after inadvertently involving herself with revolutionaries in 1911 Kiev, tells the story of her turbulent life in a Jewish village, writing journal entries to the daughter she gave up at birth.

Tells the true story of Elaine Bartlett, a victim of New York's controversal Rockefeller drug law, and her struggle to adjust to life on the outside after sixteen years in prison.

When Jennifer agrees to take the rap for her boss, a Wall Street player who has broken SEC rules, she expects her lawyer fianc? to get her off easily. Instead she finds herself behind bars at the Jennings Correctional Facility for Women and dealing with her unusual fellow inmates.