Love lockdown : dating, sex, and marriage in America's prisons /

Love lockdown : dating, sex, and marriage in America's prisons /

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Author / Creator:	Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983- author.
Edition:	First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Imprint:	New York : Gallery Books, 2021. ©2021
Description:	x, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States. Prisoners' spouses -- United States. Conjugal visits -- United States. Prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- United States. Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions. Conjugal visits. Prisoners -- Family relationships. Prisoners -- Sexual behavior. Prisoners -- Social conditions. Prisoners' spouses. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12578300

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ISBN:	9781501158414 1501158414 9781501158438
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"What is it like to fall in love through the bars of a prison cell? Elizabeth Greenwood spent five years investigating relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside. She profiled couples whose love through incarceration runs the gamut in terms of sexual orientation, race, and circumstances of their incarceration. A sort of Modern Love: Prison Edition, LOVE LOCKDOWN shows the authentic faces of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States. Greenwood's investigation not only questions our assumptions about relationships through incarceration, but she also opens up under-reported facets of prisons and shines new insights on relationships in general. Greenwood takes the reader inside spaces that many have only heard whispers of-conjugal visit trailers, prison weddings, and more. She sits across a visiting room table from a woman convicted of a double homicide. She sifts through letters and drawings from Richard Ramirez with a former serial killer groupie. She goes to unseen places, teases out the complexities of these relationships, and shines a light on how they reflect desire and delusion we may all experience in our romantic pairings"--
Other form:	Online version: Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983- Love lockdown New York : Gallery Books, [2021] 9781501158438

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Summary:	This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside "is impossible to put down" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto). <br> <br> What is it like to fall in love with someone in prison?<br> <br> Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration. In Love Lockdown , she pulls back the curtain on the lives of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people in prisons around the United States. In the vein of Modern Love , this book shines a light on how these relationships reflect the desire and delusion we all experience in our romantic pairings.<br> <br> Love Lockdown infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of--from conjugal visits to prison weddings to relationships between the incarcerated themselves. "A tour de force of empathetic nonfiction storytelling" (Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines ), Love Lockdown changes the way you look at the American prison system and perhaps relationships in general.<br> <br> Also published as Love in the Time of Incarceration .
Physical Description:	x, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781501158414 1501158414 9781501158438