- Title Pages
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- 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
Life on the Outside—of What?
Life on the Outside—of What?
- Chapter:
- (p.374) 74 Life on the Outside—of What?
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In this chapter, the author recalls the time she was in prison for nine and a half years for a drug conspiracy. She feels like her life has been interrupted, and now she seeks some semblance of “catching up” and making the pieces fit, to live a life of normalcy and do the little things that would allow her to assimilate back into society. After all, every one talks about “reentry.” After being rejected from so many jobs and trying to maintain her self-esteem and faith, the author realized she was not alone out here. So many former women prisoners feel the same thing and think the same thoughts. After having so many doors closed, the author decided to take more assertive responsibility for her own course of action, to help cement her destiny. She had a strong desire to help other women who were facing the same obstacles, so she founded the National Women's Prison Project in Baltimore, Maryland. She continues to heal from her incarceration by helping other women like her heal.
Keywords: National Women’s Prison Project, reentry, drug conspiracy, women prisoners, incarceration
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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