Fallen Angels: Inside Canada's Toughest Womens Prison

by Peter Tadman

Fallen Angels is riveting true crime book at its best, by the women who lived it. In a series of hard-hitting interviews with 12 women behind bars in the notorious Kingston Prison for Women in Ontario, Canada, before its closure, Peter Tadman allows the women to tell their stories in their own words, revealing their childhoods, their lives and their crimes for all to see. But questions are also raised about the treatment of women in federal prisons, particularly in view of the 1994 incident in which a male riot squad stormed the confines of the prison, subjecting female prisoners to inhumane and abusive treatment.

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[George]

Pretty cool, that's my mom on the cover an I was in the prison twice for a visit. Stayed in one of the houses they use to have inside the walls

[Jean]

“There is very little relationship between who is locked up and the concept of justice “ - Heather Ann Thompson

[Scott Harris]

The lives and experiences of women in Canada's now closed Penitentiary for Women. It is an interesting account of their lives

[Dan Stern]

not a bad book
chapters were VERY long, and alot of the same background for these prisoners
the questions seemed to be the same
would have liked to know more