The Year We Didn't Vote, One Woman's Documented Story About a Life Behind Bars and the Women Who Lived There!

Download or read book The Year We Didn't Vote, One Woman's Documented Story About a Life Behind Bars and the Women Who Lived There! written by Jamila Harris and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamila Harris is a published poet who currently resides in Philadelphia, Pa. She is currently working on her next novel. She has given workshops and mentored female ex-offenders on a successful re-entry back into a therapeutic community. She recently started her own movement for female ex-offenders called ''Second Chances'', this movement supplies information on legal rights in addition to helping, educating and empowering female offenders with higher education, adequate housing, recovery treatment, job placements, and entrepreneurship. ''The Year We Didn't Vote'' is her first novel. It is her compelling documented story of the injustices and triumphs behind bars in the female Correctional Institutes. America will take a glance at the difficult life of a female prisoner through her eyes. This story will make you laugh as well as cry.