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Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women  Cover Image Book Book

Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women / Susan Burton and Cari Lynn.

Burton, Susan, (author.). Lynn, Cari, (author.).

Summary:

"One woman's remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery-and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movement" -- Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781620972120
  • ISBN: 1620972123
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304).
Subject: Burton, Susan.
African American women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Abused women > United States > Biography.
Women drug addicts > United States > Biography.
Women prisoners > United States > Biography.
Women ex-convicts > United States > Biography.

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.

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  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Susan Burton is the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time, Burton was a winner of AARP's prestigious Purpose Prize and has been a Starbucks "Upstander," a CNN Top 10 Hero, and a Soros Justice Fellow. She lives in Los Angeles. Cari Lynn is a journalist and the author of five books of nonfiction, including Leg the Spread and The Whistleblower (with Kathryn Bolkovac). Lynn has written for O, The Oprah Magazine; Health; the Chicago Tribune; and Deadline Hollywood. She lives in Los Angeles. Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press). She lives in Ohio.


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