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

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#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.

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Ebook: 7 October 2022