"10,000 Violent Women and One Screenwriter, Part I"
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2009-01-23 17:24
Article here. Excerpt:
'“I killed him by mistake,” she says.
“Mistake, what kind of mistake?”
Josepha, serving a life sentence for murder one, is known to be one of the most violent and unpredictable women in a society of violent and unpredictable women. She stares at me with gray eyes that are surprisingly warm and endearing.
I have to be careful. I’ve been in this women’s prison for three days and I don’t understand the social rules that make this place go round. I’m terrified of saying something really dumb, and then seeing my insides, well, outside.
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Prison. One thing I’ve learned about the inmates: they lie. Whatever they say, you have to read between the lines to discover anything resembling the truth.
I’m doing research for a film.'
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