Her writing appears in the New York Times Magazine.Ĭari Lynn is a journalist and the author of four books of nonfiction, including The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice with Kathryn Bolkovac, and Leg the Spread: A Woman's Adventures Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boy's Club of Commodities Trading. Susan Burton is a contributing editor of This American Life, and a former editor at Harper's.
He is also the co-director and founder of his own non-governmental organisation, Wadan Afghanistan, which has rebuilt schools and constructed pipe systems in rural Kunar province. Said Hyder Akbar is currently a college student. A reading group guide appears at the back of the book. Burton is a beautifully written and unforgettable book that humanizes the devastating impact of mass incarceration and powerfully shows the structural and policy changes that can restore the lives of formerly incarcerated people.
Frequently compared to The New Jim Crow and Just Mercy, Becoming Ms. In this "stirring and moving tour-de-force" (John Legend), Susan takes us on her own journey through the criminal justice system-from growing up amid poverty and abuse in Los Angeles to becoming … More addicted to cocaine and crack after tragically losing her son, and from cycling in and out of prison for more than fifteen years to her transformation into a powerful advocate for "a more humane justice system guided by compassion and dignity" (Booklist, starred review). Burton is the "miraculously inspirational" (Vivian Nixon) life story of Susan Burton, whose organization A New Way of Life has transformed the lives of more than one thousand formerly incarcerated women in Los Angeles. Description: Winner of the prestigious NAACP Image Award, a uniquely American story of trauma, incarceration, and "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander) Widely hailed as a stunning memoir from someone more likely to be locked up or otherwise silenced, Becoming Ms.
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