Hidden Healers
eBook - ePub

Hidden Healers

The Unexpected Ways Women in Prison Help Each Other Survive

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eBook - ePub

Hidden Healers

The Unexpected Ways Women in Prison Help Each Other Survive

About this book

A gripping and deeply-felt examination of incarcerated women's lives

With unflinching clarity, Hidden Healers cuts through the myths about incarcerated women to expose the all-too-real brutalities they face within a criminal legal system never designed for them. Backed by three decades' experience providing therapeutic programs inside prisons across the United States, trauma specialist Dr. Stephanie Covington has used her unique access to amplify the voices of the women themselves. Their stories illuminate realities most never see: that most women who get caught up in the criminal justice system have themselves been victims of harm, that the degradations of today's prisons and jails only magnify their trauma- and that incarcerated women regularly risk punishment to tend to one another's well-being in unexpected acts of kindness. Grounded in research and rich with personal narrative, Hidden Healers is a poignant and riveting look inside women's prisons and jails- and what we can do to help.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781394254392
eBook ISBN
9781394254408
Edition
1
Subtopic
Criminal Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Praise Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Quote Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. A Note from a Hidden Healer: It’s Time for Change
  10. Introduction
  11. PART ONE: Entering the System
  12. PART TWO: Living Inside
  13. PART THREE: The Journey Home
  14. PART FOUR: What We Can Do
  15. Further Learning
  16. Organizations to Support
  17. Sources
  18. Author Biography
  19. Book Group Discussion Questions
  20. Also by the Author
  21. End User License Agreement