VOICES: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Suffolk County Correctional Facilitiesbrings out a full range of playful humor, deep sorrow and raw honesty that we rarely find in those who have been more sheltered. Each piece is uniquely its own, and while spelling has been corrected, the grammatical structures – often verging on sheer poetry – and the rhythms have been celebrated and left as they were created on the page. While our first issue of VOICES (published in 2007) focused largely on the experiences and legacy of early childhood sexual abuse (which nearly 90% of the women in prison share), our second issue of VOICES, in a new, expanded journal form intended for classroom use, brings to the page the stories of domestic violence that are so common in the lives of adult incarcerated women. The selections we’ve chosen look deeply into the roots of retaliatory violence against partners who threatened their children and their lives, and, we believe, will play an important part in helping the public to understand the unfairness of the very long sentences that many are facing upstate. We also will share the voices of mothers loving and longing for their children, and children (now grown) still longing for mothers who walked their paths of incarceration and abuse before them. Through all of this run the voices of the curse of addiction with which virtually all of our women struggle.
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