THEY ALWAYS CALL US - Softcover

Jean Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821729861 ISBN 13: 9780821729861

Publisher: Zebra, 1990

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is a sad book. Harris, famed for killing Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet author, has written a book about women in prison, specifically the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (New York), where she is currently serving a sentence of 15 years to life. Prisoners now are called "ladies," not "girls," but prison life is still harsh, almost as nonrehabilitative as when women's prisons first opened 100 years ago. Particularly brutal is the impact on children of female prisoners. Coming from broken or single-parent families, lacking the chance to bond, these children are particularly susceptible to society's evils. Harris offers no major solutions, but hopes that as the result of this expose, some changes will be made. Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This "muffled cry from hell"--from the woman who was convicted of murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower in the 1980 "Scarsdale Diet case"--leaves little doubt that most women's prisons in the U.S. are human warehouses that further degrade inmates instead of redirecting their lives. According to PW , Harris's call for prison reform "is marred by a self-pitying tone and a shapeless narrative structure."
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zebra
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0821729861
• ISBN 13: 9780821729861
• Binding: Paperback