Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir

by Clare Hanrahan

A lucid, intensely moving, and highly personal account of the author's six-month inprisonment inside Alderson Federal Prison, the oldest and the largest U.S. Federal women's prison. Conscience & Consequence chronicles the peaceful protest actions that resulted in the author's imprisonment, and exposes the devastating abuses of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. This perceptive book is a powerful call to action.

225 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[A.D. Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book! It's such a powerful indictment of our political system as well as an honest look at the way our prison system operated 20 years ago (it's gotten worse since then). Clare was indeed a prisoner of conscience, just as her anti-war activity grew out of a powerful, Catholic-formed conscience of both right and wrong and the oppressiveness of an imperialistic impulse that has emanated from our democracy for at least 50 years.
I highly recommend it.