Women Behind Bars

By Wensley Clarkson

Book Overview

They were once sweet little girls--suagr and spice, and everything nice. Now they're cold blooded criminals, behind the bars of America's most dangerous prisons--hardened women doing their time. how and why did they cross to the dark side? What makes women kill husbands, lovers, family, and innocent strangers? Step aside and meet: Patty: the prison beauty slaughtered her mother, father, and little brother after falling in love with an evil Svengali twenty years her senior. Michelle: She lovingly tends the flowers on the prison grounds. Only those who know her best know how she kicked her husband to death. Cynthia: A typical St. Louis girl--until she met a jailbird and embarked on a murderous rampage worthy of "Natural Born Killers." Author Wensley Clarkson has used his unique, unlimited access to some of America's toughest prisons to reveal the shocking world of female criminals--from their illicit love affairs to race relations, prostitution, protection rackets, drug smuggling, and more. Plus: what happened to notorious criminals Amy Fisher and Pam Smart? Now their tawdry lived behind bars are revealed.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312981112
• ISBN13: 9780312981112
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"