- Title Pages
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- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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Part One Defining the Problem -
1 Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization, and the Prison-Industrial Complex -
2 Glossary of Terms -
3 The Long Shadow of Prison: My Messy Journey through Fear, Silence, and Racism toward Abolition -
4 Unpeeling the Mask -
5 Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights -
6 United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons -
7 Being in Prison -
8 Wearing Blues -
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 - Contributors
- Index
Being in Prison
Being in Prison
- Chapter:
- (p.57) 7 Being in Prison
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Joanne Archibald
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter describes life in prison. The author was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison when she was three months pregnant. Because her court case took a long time, she was able to give birth to her son outside. He was seven months old when the author went in. She talks about the procedures inside the prison, a roommate from Southern California, her job as a cook inside the prison, and how she experienced sexual harassment from a guy who cooked with her.
Keywords: prison, prison visits, cook, sexual harassment
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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 -
1 Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization, and the Prison-Industrial Complex -
2 Glossary of Terms -
3 The Long Shadow of Prison: My Messy Journey through Fear, Silence, and Racism toward Abolition -
4 Unpeeling the Mask -
5 Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights -
6 United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons -
7 Being in Prison -
8 Wearing Blues -
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 - Contributors
- Index