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44/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Elizabeth Greenwood
Publisher:
Gallery Books
Date:
July 13, 2021
Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration.
What The Reviewers Say
... flaws and all, these couples feel real. The pat explanations for why women might start a relationship with a man in prison...may have some salience, but they are not the whole story. By taking this lens to the prison system, Greenwood also cracks open the absolute awfulness of this subworld—the greed of charging prisoners exorbitant fees to have any contact with loved ones; the exploitation of paying inmates $12 a month for full-time work, forcing women to shoulder the financial burden of caring for families; the constant humiliation that is the point, not the byproduct. As Greenwood explains, the way we do prisons in this country is not normal. Perhaps if we approached incarceration differently in America, we’d have a different understanding of the relationships that come out of it as well..
Sometimes Greenwood gets bogged down by digressions.
An empathetic, detached portrait of five prison couples.
A compassionate inquiry into the hidden phenomena of prison relationships.
