Hard time at Tehachapi
Subtitle: California's first women's prison
By: Kathleen A. Cairns.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780826345721
Subjects: California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.) -- History; Reformatories for women -- California -- Tehachapi; Correctional institutions -- California -- Tehachapi
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: San Quentin blues : criminals, clubwomen, and the campaign for a female reformatory; title: Hard-nosed politics : the battle for Tehachapi; title: Murderers, thieves, and con artists; title: Writing their lives : the Clarion and the California Institution for Women; title: A woman in charge; title: Tehachapi : on shaky ground; title: After Tehachapi.