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04824cam a2200589Ii 4500 001 42B545C2DF5611EB87A8BD9C2A3FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210707140514 007 ta 008 160803t20172017nyua b 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2017288868 020 $a 1620972123 020 $a 9781620972120 035 $a (OCoLC)954670513 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d TOH $d WIM $d MLY $d FM0 $d DAD $d JP3 $d ZLM $d CPL $d R2A $d RCJ $d PFLCL $d IDU $d IGA $d PAU $d DLC $d IAC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OMB $d PTS $d TFW $d ROB $d OCLCA $d TNX $d LKC $d TJC $d COS $d Z86 $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d HQD $d GRR $d TXSCH $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HV9468.B87 $b A3 2017 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Burton, Susan $c (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization)), $e author. 245 10 $a Becoming Ms. Burton : $b from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women / $c Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander. 246 3 $a Becoming Miss Burton 264 1 $a New York ; $b New Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xxiii, 304 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304). 505 0 $a 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. Ms. 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. 600 10 $a Burton, Susan $c (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization)) 650 0 $a Women ex-convicts $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women prisoners $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women social reformers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Abused women $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women drug addicts $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Social Activists. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LAW $x Criminal Law. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Civil Rights. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Discrimination & Race Relations. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Abused women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794870 650 7 $a African American women social reformers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799525 650 7 $a Women drug addicts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01742943 650 7 $a Women ex-convicts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177649 650 7 $a Women prisoners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178398 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 4 $a Autobiographies. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Lynn, Cari, $e author. 700 1 $a Alexander, Michelle, $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210708091342.0 $n 4 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42B545C2DF5611EB87A8BD9C2A3FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search