Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women

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Label

Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women

Title remainder

from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women

Statement of responsibility

Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; [with a foreword by Michelle Alexander]

Title variation

Becoming Miss Burton

Creator

• Burton, Susan, (Founder of A New way of life (Organization))
• Burton, Susan, (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization))

Contributor

• Lynn, Cari
• Alexander, Michelle

Author

• Burton, Susan, (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization))
• Lynn, Cari
• Burton, Susan, (Founder of A New way of life (Organization))

Subject

• Abused women -- United States -- Biography
• Women ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography
• African American women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
• Women prisoners -- United States -- Biography
• Women drug addicts -- United States -- Biography
• Burton, Susan, (Founder of A New way of life (Organization))

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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 under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children--setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Becoming Ms. Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

• 303.484092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV9468.B87

LC item number

A3 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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