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Special thanks to the inmates in the Beacon Horticultural Program who gave me the terrific houseplants. They are still going strong, despite my black thumb. I have one on my kitchen windowsill and I like to think of the plants as expressions of the strength of the women who helped to start and nurture the seedlings.
A final thanks to Tracy Fonville, an inmate sentenced to an unjust twenty-three-year sentence, and who was released early. Our joy at meeting in front of Rockefeller Center had to be experienced before I could write about newfound freedom with any truth.
On the last page I list a few books that I recommend to readers who want to be more aware of the prison problem in America. And I remind us all that:
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Recommended Reading
Books:
The Farm: Life Inside a Women’s Prison. Andi Rierden. University of Massachusetts Press.
Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Kathryn Watterson, Meda Chesney-Lind. Northeastern University Press.
The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry. Daniel Burton-Rose, Dan Pens, Paul Wright, eds. Common Courage Press.
Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis. Elihu Rosenblatt, ed. South End Press.
Live from Death Row. Mumia Abu-Jamal. Avon.
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. Christian Parenti. Verso.
Race to Incarcerate. Mark Maurer. New Press.
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons. Joy James, ed. Palgrave.
Articles/pamphlets:
‘The Prison Industrial Complex.’ Eric Schlosser. Atlantic Monthly, December 1998.
About the Author
Olivia Goldsmith is the bestselling author of The First Wives Club, Flavor of the Month, Bestseller, The Switch, Young Wives and most recently, Bad Boy. She has contributed to The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, In Style, and the Observer, among other publications. She divides her time between her homes in upstate New York and Manhattan. For more about Olivia Goldsmith, visit her website at www.olivia-goldsmith.com.
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‘Full of wisecracks and gossip…Olivia Goldsmith can keep you reading’
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‘A bubbly, fizzy story’
Daily Mail
‘Olivia Goldsmith’s forte has always been the writing of revenge novels with great good humor’
Washington Post
‘Goldsmith hands out her characters’ rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack…You keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip’
Newsweek
‘Fizzing with acerbic dialogue and high-level sexual slapstick’
Good Housekeeping
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Simple Isn’t Easy
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Marrying Mom
The Switch
Young Wives
Bad Boy
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