Snakes and ladders : [electronic resource] : a memoir
Angela Williams2020
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The dark truth of Australia's justice system through the eyes of a woman sent to
prison twice for the same crime.--Cover
It was no surprise that Angela Williams went to jail. A traumatic, violent
upbringing saw to that. But after serving a short sentence for theft as a
teenager, she worked hard to break the cycle. Thirteen years later Angela was
studying, teaching, providing a stable home for her son, and finally feeling
like she'd got her life together. Then she got hit by a postie bike. Police
realised that Angela still had ten months to go on the prison sentence she'd
thought was in her distant past.However, Angela was a different prisoner the
second time around: no longer a scared, damaged nineteen-year-old, she knew how
to speak up for herself and her fellow prisoners against a system of power,
privilege and cruelty that controls the lives of Australia's most vulnerable
women and offers little hope for redemption.With unwavering courage,
intelligence and humour, Sna...
Main title:
Snakes and ladders : [electronic resource] : a memoir / Angela Williams
Author:
Angela Williams, Author
Imprint:
South Melbourne, Vic. : Affirm Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (1 online resource)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781925972863
Language:
English
BRN:
433879
Electronic access:
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