From the Publisher: The intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices...

Diane picked up her mother's phone. "How do you feel about your mother being let out of prison today after sixty-five years?" the reporter asked. Diane stared at her mother. "My grandmother is alive?" That one phone call hurled shock waves throughout the entire family. 1955- Anna Bergman Craine's life changes in an instant when she commits a crime of passion and is sentenced to life in prison. Leaving behind two young children, she is left alone in...

"Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive--and protect...

After watching a taped interview with Rona Leigh Glueck, a convicted ax-murderer who will be the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War, FBI investigator Poppy Rice discovers something that causes her to reopen the investigation.

"Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in...

An interesting tale with poignant truths.

Imprisoned in a Tahitian jail while searching for her long-lost father, Liv attempts to reconstruct her troubled past and reflects upon the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to Tahiti with Queen Victoria's grandchildren.

In her own words, the author shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction.

A misunderstood convict and a troubled GI meet on furlough and try to crowd a lifetime of love and laughter into eight days of happiness in this tender wartime love story.