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"Inside Alderson Women's Prison it's no "Camp Cupcake"
This is the lucid, intensely moving, and highly personal account of Clare Hanrahan's six-month incarceration inside the oldest and largest U.S. Federal prison for women. As a political prisoner and Inmate No. 90285-020, the author experienced life among more than 900 other women held in this prison labor camp in the mountains of West Virginia. She shares the stories of some of the women she met inside and details some of the mental cruelties imposed on these nonviolent women by this punitve prison system.
Conscience & consequence chronicles the peaceful protest actions that resulted in the author's imprisonment, and exposes some of the devastating abuses of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The author is a political and social justice activist. She was convicted of misdemeanor trespass at Fort Benning, Georgia, and entered Alderson Federal prison in July 2001. She is part of a nonviolent movement acting to bring about closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas, a combat training camp for Latin American military implicated in documented human rights abuses.
Conscience & Consequence sheds light inside one of Americas Federal Prison Camps and into the lives of some of America's one million nonviolent prisoners."
Clare Hanrahan, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Which institution
- prison
Life in an institution
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 (a good amount)
United States
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Book makes you feel?
- challenged
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- war
- justice system
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 51%-75% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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