Crystal’s Reviews > Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival > Status Update

“While each woman’s life was distinct, their trajectories inevitably followed a familiar pattern: a girl violated; a pileup of failures to protect her; and a terrible, desperate act. Then, the same state that had so thoroughly abandoned the women throughout their lives reemerged—suddenly well funded and powerful, in the form of police and prosecutors, and prisons.”