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sdbecque's review
4.0
“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?” - Bryan Stevenson
I found myself thinking a lot of that quote by Bryan Stevenson a lot while reading this book, which is a collection of stories by women incarcerated at York Correctional Institute. The commonalities in many of these stories are heartbreaking, but deserve to be read to make us think collectively about the goal of our current prison industrial complex, and the goals of mass incarceration.
Read for the Read Harder 2019 Challenge task: A book written in prison.
I found myself thinking a lot of that quote by Bryan Stevenson a lot while reading this book, which is a collection of stories by women incarcerated at York Correctional Institute. The commonalities in many of these stories are heartbreaking, but deserve to be read to make us think collectively about the goal of our current prison industrial complex, and the goals of mass incarceration.
Read for the Read Harder 2019 Challenge task: A book written in prison.
betweentheshelves's review
4.0
This is a powerful collection of stories, each one just as engrossing as the next. Definitely an out of the box read for me, but one that was still enjoyable nonetheless.
samc218's review
4.0
Poignant, real stories from real women that amazed me. Incarceration is not what I would have thought...made me think how one small choice can really land anyone behind bars. An amazing collection.
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