Social Organization and Survival for Women in Prison

Social Organization and Survival for Women in Prison

A woman doing life is the most unique book in terms of describing and understanding the experience of women incarcerated for hard core crimes (George & Johnson, 2010). The book revolves around the writer and the people, her experiences and responses to the prison life. The experiences that she describes are authentic, rather than fictional as most prison based books are; they are basically based on the author’s own personal experiences as a convicted criminal serving as a life sentence in Virginia. The book provides an inside view, into not just the prison system as experienced by women, but also the emotions and uphill traumas that the…