Becoming Ms. Burton from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Michelle Alexander
- Part I: Sue
- Now what?
- Land of opportunity
- Daddy's girl
- Hit the road
- The sacrifice
- Things you don't talk about
- The life
- From the skillet to the frying pan
- No justice, no peace
- A new drug
- Incarceration nation
- Collateral damage
- The revolving door
- The vicious cycle
- Hurt people
- A tale of two systems
- A way out
- Finding purpose
- Part II: Mrs. Burton
- A new way of life
- The wall of no
- Who's profiting from our pain?
- Women and prison
- A kindred spirit
- Taking food off the table
- Broke leg house
- From trash to treasure
- All of us or none
- Treating the symptoms and the disease
- The meaning of life
- The women from Orange County
- Being beholden
- Living an impossible life
- The house that discrimination built
- Women organizing for justice and opportunity
- What would Ms. Sybil Brand think?
- Without representation
- Prop 47
- The movement
- The arc bends toward justice.
