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index Addiction: prisoners’ experiences with, 65, 114, 124, 131, 164, 241, 254; in Woman, Thou Art Loosed!, 105; in urban fiction, 148; in Joyce Meyer’s books, 290 (n. 5) African American women: in federal and state prisons, 4; rates of incarceration for, 4, 24, 272 (n. 11); in scholarship about crime, 5, 272 (n. 13); in scholarship about reading, 6, 273 (n. 17); involved in study, 9; and “literary activism” in the club movement, 23; and reformatories, 25, 276 (n. 23); and custodial prisons, 26; and urban fiction, 141, 147–48, 151, 153; on the current state of the black community, 232–33. See also Prisoners, female; Race; Urban fiction: race in; Victimization: and race Alcoff, Linda Martin, and Laura GrayRosendale , 84, 104, 122 Alice, 67 Allison, Dorothy, and Bastard out of Carolina , 133–34 American Correctional Association, 33, 41. See also American Prison Association American Library Association, 25, 29, 41, 280 (n. 84) American Prison Association, 25, 29. See also American Correctional Association Amy, 228, 230 Andrews, V. C., 60, 78 Angel, 71, 148, 152, 165 Angelique, 231, 239, 240, 241–42 Arlene, 111–12, 126, 200 Attica Prison, 38, 39, 48 Audrey, 100, 107–8, 126, 189 Augé, Marc, 226 Barbara, 163, 169, 184 Bashir, Muhammad Ibn, and Raw Law, 300–301 (n. 8) Battlefield of the Mind. See Meyer, Joyce Beard v. Banks, 2, 19, 20, 45, 274 (n. 4). See also Censorship and reading restrictions in prisons Berger, John, 189 Bibliotherapy, 33–37, 40, 278 (nn. 51, 52). See also Delaney, Sara Peterson Black women. See African American women Bobbie, 67, 102–5, 150, 151, 159 Boo, 125, 148–49, 170, 239 Books for prisoners, organizations that gather, 269–70 Breeanna, 66, 71, 191–92, 241 Brown, Wendy, 84–85, 90–93, 96, 114, 115, 122, 125, 127, 285–86 (n. 24) Burke, Kenneth, on books as “equipment for living,” 7, 55, 273 (n. 18), 298 (n. 47) Byrne, Rhonda, and The Secret, 201, 221–23, 298 (nn. 53, 55), 300 (nn. 6, 7) Caesar, 1, 70, 148, 229 Candi, 170, 191 Candy, 54, 118, 301 (n. 3) Casarjian, Robin, 193 Cassandra, 54, 71, 72, 73 (ill.), 146, 151–52, 154–55, 167 Censorship and reading restrictions in prisons, 43–46, 51, 59–60, 218, 280 (nn. 84, 87, 88), 282 (nn. 9, 10), 291 (n. 4); compared to restrictions in public libraries, 27, 28–29, 248, 277 (n. 40); compared to availability of television 326 | index programming, 39, 64–65, 144. See also Beard v. Banks; Urban fiction: penal officials’ banning of Changing Lives through Literature, 5, 272 (n. 16) Charmaine, 153, 182 Cheng, Anne Anlin, 251 Chicken Soup for the Prisoner’s Soul, 59, 129, 174, 182 Christine, 70, 72, 75–76 (ills.), 167, 170–71 Cleage, Pearl, and What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, 198–200, 248 Coldest Winter Ever, The. See Sister Souljah and The Coldest Winter Ever Convict lease system, 22–23, 274–75 (n. 11), 275 (nn. 12, 15) Counseling and therapeutic programs for prisoners, 85–86, 131, 175, 189, 214, 285 (n. 11), 290 (n. 82). See also Meyer, Joyce: as mentor for prisoners; Rehabilitation for prisoners; Religion: and twelve-step programs; Self-help reading practice Coyle, William J., and Libraries in Prisons, 41–42 Critical Resistance. See Prison abolition movement Cummins, Eric, 5, 6 Curtis, Florence Rising, 30, 32 Darlene, 54, 147, 148, 150, 151, 167 Davis, Angela, 3, 5, 48, 110, 112, 175 Deedee, 190 Delaney, Sara Peterson, 33–34, 278 (n. 56). See also Bibliotherapy Denise: on reading, 3, 54, 63, 64, 129, 182, 247; detailed portrait of, 129–39; on The Coldest Winter Ever, 132, 135–36, 163, 242; on Iyanla Vanzant’s Yesterday, I Cried, 132–33, 136–38; on Bastard out of Carolina, 133–35; on Laughing in the Dark, 134, 138; on Battlefield of the Mind, 136, 138–39, 197, 203–4; on the group discussions, 138, 236, 238, 239–40, 242; on urban fiction, 147–48; on Their Eyes Were Watching God, 233–35 Deven, 187, 205–7, 233–34, 236–37, 238, 239–40, 242 Dickey, Eric Jerome, 167 Disidentification, 162, 165, 166, 222, 284 (n. 29) Donna, 65, 67, 70, 121, 193 Drea, 191, 196–97, 239 Education, penal: diminishing opportunities for, 1, 2, 51, 281 (n. 101); and elimination of Pell Grants for prisoners, 2, 50, 51; and prisoners’ educational levels, 11, 157–58, 276 (n. 26); history of, 23–24, 25, 46, 47, 276...

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