Le pourrissoir, Saint-Lazare
Subtitle: choses vues, entendues et vécues
By: Jeanne Humbert ; préface de Victor Margueritte
Contributors: Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
Publisher: Éditions prima
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Imprisonment; Reformatories for women
Description: The author, a neo-Malthusian social activist, was convicted in 1920 of "abortion complicity" and sentenced to two years in the women's prison of Saint Lazare. This account, published twelve years later, describes her experiences.
Table of contents: title: L'arrestation; title: La nuit au Dépôt; title: A Saint-Lazare! L'arrivée; title: L'atelier 1; title: Sur la cour; title: L'amour à Saint-Lago!; title: La cellule; title: Le lever; title: L'atelier 4; title: Un caractère de criminelle; title: Grands trafics et petites "combines"; title: Aux "jugées"; title: L'atelier 7. Un transfert; title: La bibliothèque; title: Conclusion.