Author : Ted McCoy
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774838906
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Book Synopsis Four Unruly Women by : Ted McCoy
Download or read book Four Unruly Women written by Ted McCoy and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison. In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Ted McCoy tells these women’s stories of incarceration and resistance in poignant detail. The four women served sentences at different times over a century, but the inhumanity they suffered was consistent. Locked away in dark basement wards, they experienced starvation and corporal punishment, sexual abuse and neglect – profoundly disturbing evidence of the hidden costs of isolation, punishment, and mass incarceration.