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Highlights
- If you have ever wondered what happens in prison, Time Served is for you.
- Benjamin Franklin Award (New Voice Nonfiction) 2024 3rd Winner
- Author(s): T L Cromwell
- 232 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Description
Book Synopsis
If you have ever wondered what happens in prison, Time Served is for you. It's an in-depth memoir from a Correctional Officer's perspective. The incarcerated population have written many books, but only a few have been written by prison staff. Meet T.L. Cromwell, an African American woman, who shares her truth about 21+ years of TIME SERVED in prison. She shares her experience working in an environment that was often mudane, mixed with incidents of extreme violence and terror.
Review Quotes
"Time Served pulls no punches in revealing all the underlying emotional challenges of the job. It humanizes the correctional officer's job and relationships in many different ways. More so than almost any other prison system title, Cromwell provides an invaluable and rare look at inmate relationships and how they are affected by imprisonment."
-Midwest Book Review
"A thought-provoking book written from the "other" side of the bars. Time Served provides a much needed insight from a Black Woman's perspective inside the prisons. A must read."
-Professor Christian Green
West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA