The big girls
By: Susanna Moore
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781400041909
Subjects: Physician and patient; Women prisoners; Filicide; Reformatories for women; Fiction
Description: The story of Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg, and the horrible crime that led to her life sentence at the prison, is told through the voices of Helen herself; Dr. Louise Forrest, head of mental services at the prison; and Ike Bradshaw, a young correctionsofficer.