Summary of Hugh Ryan's The Women's House of Detention

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was a prison for incarcerated women, which I visited as a child and now can’t look at without hearing Jay Toole’s voice describing the brutal physicals that doctors had inflicted upon her there.
#2 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.
#3 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.
#4 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they are also places of queer history and community.

Sujets

• Sociology
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350040289
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Hugh Ryan's The Womens House of Detention
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was a prison for incarcerated women, which I visited as a child and now can’t look at without hearing Jay Toole’s voice describing the brutal physicals that doctors had inflicted upon her there.

#2

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.

#3

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.

#4

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they are also places of queer history and community.

#5

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.

#6

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, they are also queer history and community.

#7

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, but also of queer history and community.

#8

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but queer history and community.

#9

Prisons are not just places of violence and control, but also places of queer history and community.

#10

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#11

Prisons are not only violent and controlling, but also queer history and community.

#12

Newkirk was a wealthy bachelor who was addicted to cocaine, and he was arrested for illegally buying the drug. Newkirk, who had no previous criminal record, was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for first-degree cocaine possession. -> Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#13

Prisons are not just violent and controlling, but also queer history and community.

#14

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#15

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#16

The Night Court, which allowed judges to hand out shorter prison sentences to women who engaged in sex work, was a failure. The bail bondsmen simply moved their business from the station house to the Jefferson Market courthouse.

#17

New York City’s Night Court, which allowed judges to hand out shorter prison sentences to women who engaged in sex work, was a failure.

#18

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#19

Prisons are not just violent and controlling, but also queer history and community.

#20

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#21

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#22

Women were considered inherently disposable, and fingerprinting was developed specifically to identify them.

#23

NYPD informants entrapped and framed Black women for prostitution, and police, acting in cahoots with them, arrested them and added to their record of supposed efficiency.

#24

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#25

Prisons are not just violent and controlling, but also queer history and community.

#26

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.

#27

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Prisons are not just violent and controlling places, but also queer history and community.