- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out -
73 A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After -
74 Life on the Outside—of What? -
75 California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban -
76 Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco -
77 Only with Time -
78 Child of a Convicted Felon -
79 Mothering after Imprisonment -
80 Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration -
81 The First Time Is a Mistake… -
82 What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside -
83 Alternatives: ATI in New York City -
84 Violent Interruptions -
85 Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and a New Way of Life -
86 Booking It beyond the Big House -
87 Being Out of Prison - Contributors
- Index
A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
- Chapter:
- (p.367) 73 A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Lorrie Sue McClary
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In this chapter, the author, a former battered woman, narrates her experience from the time she was released from prison on parole on October 24, 2005 after a few delays, to her finally coming home with her family, accompanied by a parole officer. It took months to get her Social Security card, California ID card, driver's license, savings account, and ATM card. If she had not come home to her family, she feels she would have been lost in this world. On her forty-seventh birthday, she spoke at Free Battered Women's “Our Voices Within” event. The author has always had tremendous family support and love, and she had the victims' son testifying on her behalf for her release and DNA testing that in the end proved she did not commit the murder and that she was only in prison for being involved in a robbery that she never would have been involved in had she had not been forced into it by her batterer.
Keywords: Free Battered Women, parole, prison, California, parole officer, robbery, DNA testing
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
-
Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out -
73 A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After -
74 Life on the Outside—of What? -
75 California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban -
76 Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco -
77 Only with Time -
78 Child of a Convicted Felon -
79 Mothering after Imprisonment -
80 Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration -
81 The First Time Is a Mistake… -
82 What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside -
83 Alternatives: ATI in New York City -
84 Violent Interruptions -
85 Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and a New Way of Life -
86 Booking It beyond the Big House -
87 Being Out of Prison - Contributors
- Index