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Covington 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNewark :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) $cillustrations 311 1 $a9781394254392 311 1 $a1394254393 327 $aCover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note from a Hidden Healer: It's Time for Change -- Introduction -- My Time Inside: Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1987 -- Incarcerated Women Are Made Invisible -- Just The Facts -- Trauma in Prison, Trauma of Prison -- How Women Survive Prison -- The Language We Use -- The Voices in Hidden Healers -- Part One: Entering the System -- Introduction to the Criminal Legal System for Women in the United States -- It's Not Like TV -- Who Gets in "The System"? -- Cash Bail and Plea Bargains -- Differences between Jail and Prison -- Who's in Charge -- Differences between Men's and Women's Prisons -- Pathways to Prison: Understanding Trauma and Addiction -- The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline -- First Days -- The Transfer to Prison -- Strip Searches -- The Revolving Door -- Learning the Rules -- Part Two: Living Inside -- Culture and Environment -- Visitation -- The Impact of Improved Facilities -- Sexual Harassment, Assault, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act -- Restrictive Housing -- A Different Kind of Space -- Working Inside the Culture of Corrections -- Finding Your Program -- Barriers to Effective Programs -- Alcoholics Anonymous and Other Recovery Programs -- Creating Safer Spaces Inside -- Food -- Low-Quality Food at Cheaper Prices -- Food as Contraband -- Food as a Method for Rehabilitation -- Creative Solutions -- Mothering from Inside -- Generational Trauma -- Staying Connected to Children -- When Children Visit the Prison -- Pregnancy and Birth -- Connecting with Children after Release -- Grief and Loss -- The Death of a Loved One -- Developing Relationships -- Creating a Sense of Family -- Romantic Bonds -- Mentors, Networks, and Friends -- Medical and Mental Health Care -- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Incarceration. 327 $aGetting Care Inside -- Behavior Management as Mental Health Care -- Untangling the Difficulties in Medical and Mental Health Care -- Aging in Custody -- Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and End-of-Life Care -- Celebrating Special Days -- Something from Nothing -- Holidays Inside -- Graduation Day -- Just Because -- Remembering Those Who Don't Survive -- Part Three: The Journey Home -- Gate Fever -- Going Up for Parole -- When the Law Changes -- The Work of Reentry -- A Lack of Services -- Meaningful Work -- Healing after Incarceration -- Moving along the Spiral -- Spirituality -- Freedom Comes in Many Forms -- Part Four: What We Can Do -- Envisioning Alternatives -- Reforms Aren't Enough -- What Next? -- Do One Small Thing -- Why Start with Women? -- Practical Actions -- Further Learning -- Organizations to Support -- Sources -- Author Biography -- Book Group Discussion Questions -- Also by the Author -- EULA. 330 $aWith unflinching clarity, Hidden Healers cuts through the myths about incarcerated women to expose the all-too-real brutalities they face within a criminal legal system never designed for them. Backed by three decades of experience providing therapeutic programs inside prisons across the United States, trauma specialist Dr. Stephanie S. Covington has used her unique access to amplify the voices of the women themselves. Stories from two dozen interviews with formerly incarcerated women are threaded throughout this journey into the criminal legal system, and their insights ground Covington's analysis. Hidden Healers illuminates realities most never see: that the majority who get caught up in the criminal justice system have themselves been victims of harm, that the degradation of today's prisons and jails only magnify their trauma--and that incarcerated women regularly risk punishment to tend to one another's well-being in unexpected acts of kindness. 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