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

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #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’