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Women have become a large part of the penal system. There are
women of all ages and races. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives
even grandmothers. Most come from broken homes where incest, physical
and emotional abuse, rape, alcoholism and drug use, prostitution,
theft and the overall exploitation of life are an everyday way
of living. To know something different is out of the ordinary,
it isn't real life. Many women don't know and have a hard time
with compassion as the social and economical dysfunction they've
endured and still continue to have been their existence from the
very beginning of what they knew as life.
There are many habitual offenders who continue to hold onto the
state issued inmate number they received years ago as they cannot
get rid of it. What does this mean? It means many women come back
into prison just as quickly as they are released because they cannot
be successful in completing their parole. When you are not successful
in completing parole, you continue to hold onto the state number
you are assigned and known by in prison as there is no need to
issue you a new number because you have not been out long enough
to get out the penal system database. Many become so familiar to
the system that the correctional officers tell you on the way out
they'll see you soon. With prison being set-up on a level of comfortableness,
several don't want to come back but don't mind.
For most it is not
that they don't want to stay out of the system, they have not learned
or identified how. The overall majority go right back into the
crime infested area that got them into prison. Many don't have
families in tact with strong bonds or spiritual backgrounds where
there can be intercession for them. There is fear, merciless limitations,
inadequacies and the pressures of society and daily survival that
they are faced with before they even reach their release date.
Once released there is the overall lack of rehabilitation that
sends the majority of women right back. Many want help. Many want
to turn their lives around, but many don't know how and can't find
the tools and/or resources to show them.
TIME ON
THE INSIDE takes
readers vividly into the walls of Central California Women's Facility
(CCWF) the largest women's prison in the United States with a stop
through Sybil Brand Institute (SBI) formerly the largest women's
jail in California where conditions at this jail were not fit for
a rodent. There are many struggles and challenges faced daily behind
the walls. Conditions for the most part are abusive, violent and
even deadly.
This book is an extraordinary view and look into the
many areas that plague women, the problems within the system and
the lack of rehabilitation which continuously warehouses criminals.
It will bring insight, knowledge, laughter, tears and a much needed
awareness and compassion into the social and economical barriers
which many women face that ultimately lead them into a life of
crime and into the penal system.
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This is an extraordinary look at the day-to-day activity that
exist in a maximum security Prison from an actual insider who experienced
and saw conditions that plaque women inside and outside the walls.
This book not only look as time inside, but it gives a sense of
hope and belief that although one does time behind the walls, with
structure and commitment once out, life can renew itself in a positive
light.
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