Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women / Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander.
Burton, Susan (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization)) author.; Lynn, Cari, author.; Alexander, Michelle, writer of foreword.
2017
HV9468.B87 A3 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women / Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander.
Author Burton, Susan (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization)) author.
ISBN 9781620972120 (hardcover)
1620972123 (hardcover)
Published New York ; London : New Press, 2017.
Language English
Description xxiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number HV9468.B87 A3 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.484092 B
Summary "Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children--setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Becoming Ms. Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304).
Added Author Lynn, Cari, author.
Alexander, Michelle, writer of foreword.
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Foreword / Michelle Alexander
Part I: Sue
Now what?
Land of opportunity
Daddy's girl
Hit the road
The sacrifice
Things you don't talk about
The life
From the skillet to the frying pan
No justice, no peace
A new drug
Incarceration nation
Collateral damage
The revolving door
The vicious cycle
Hurt people
A tale of two systems
A way out
Finding purpose
Part II: Ms. Burton
A new way of life
The wall of no
Who's profiting from our pain?
Women and prison
A kindred spirit
Taking food off the table
Broke leg house
From trash to treasure
All of us or none
Treating the symptoms and the disease
The meaning of life
The women from Orange County
Being beholden
Living an impossible life
The house that discrimination built
Women organizing for justice and opportunity
What would Ms. Sybil Brand think?
Without representation
Prop 47
The movement
The arc bends toward justice.

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