They Always Call Us Ladies, Stories from Prison

They Always Call Us Ladies, Stories from Prison by Jean Harris. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound. Glassine Protected DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Good DJ. Discarded Library Book. 276 Pgs. ISBN 0684189631. LCCN 88-12207. The author brings you inside the walls of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she is an inmate. She writes about the way of life there for 800 prisoners; the crowded conditions; the harshness of many of the C.O.s, the curious and endless stream of rules that seam to make no sense. More important, she shows that rehabilitation is virtually nil, so that inmates are caught in a vicious circle: When the leave Bedford Hills, they have few if any skills and in most cases, very little money - with the result that they head back almost immediately to the street life that first brought them to Bedford. Description text copyright 2005 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 8566.