Review: A Revealing Look at Our Criminal Justice System
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2013
Author, Kristen Pierce, takes us with her inside Orange County Women's Jail in Santa Ana, California and shares a behind-the-scenes look at the women entangled in our criminal justice system.Unlike male inmates, the vast majority of these women are nonviolent, petty criminals who enter and re-enter our jails throughout their lives for such things as prostitution, shoplifting, writing bad checks and drug abuse. What do most of their crimes have in common? They consist primarily of desperate attempts to survive and support themselves. One 36-year-old prostitute was in jail for her 17th time when Kristen arrived at OCWJ. The truths revealed in this book are very tragic, but it is essential that we know them.