Keeonna Harris' memoir, 'Mainline Mama,' explores her life as a parent with an incarcerated partner. The book delves into the complexities of the prison system, offering a personal and political perspective on prison reform and its impact on women.
When Keeonna Harris was 15, her life swerved sharply off course. Harris became pregnant. Then, before she could come to terms with the life-changing event, her boyfriend, Jason, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a violent carjacking and shooting incident. Two years later, in 1998, she married Jason at Calipatria State Prison. The Los Angeles born-and-raised author details her experience as a parent with an incarcerated partner in her memoir, “Mainline Mama” — out Feb.
on any given day, at a staggering cost of $182 billion per year, and many of those prisoners — especially in California, Texas and Florida — are Black, non-Hispanic men. According to the nonprofit, 'California locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democratic country on Earth.' Harris knows the ins and outs of the complicated U.S. prison system, both from an academic and a harrowingly personal perspective.
Social Commentary Prison Reform PRISON REFORM SOCIAL INJUSTICE MASS INCARCERATION WOMEN IN PRISONS ABOLITION
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