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Author Burton, Susan, author.

Title Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women / Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander.

Publication Info. New York ; London : New Press, 2017.

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 East Lyme Public Adult Biography   B BURTON, SUSAN (Burton) (Becoming)    AVAILABLE
 Ledyard/Gales Ferry Nonfiction   303.484 Bur    AVAILABLE
 Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction   303.484 BURTON B    AVAILABLE
 Meriden Adult Biography   BIO BURTON, S    AVAILABLE
 North Haven Adult Biography   Biography Burton, Susan    DISPLAY
 Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Non-Fiction   B BURTON BURTON    AVAILABLE
 Wallingford Adult Biographies   B BURTON SUSAN BU    AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm
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Media unmediated
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Description Autobiographies.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304).
Contents 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.
Subject Burton, Susan.
Women ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography.
Women prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
African American women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Abused women -- United States -- Biography.
Women drug addicts -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
Added Author Lynn, Cari, author.
Alexander, Michelle, writer of foreword.
Added Title Becoming Miss Burton.
ISBN 9781620972120 (hardcover)
1620972123 (hardcover)