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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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A reporter who fought government corruption to save her husband's life tells her "searing story of love, endurance, and a decades-long battle for justice" (Julia Flynn Siler, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Mondavi ). In 1981, TV reporter Jodie Sinclair went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Death House at Angola, to report on the death penalty. There she met--and fell in love with--Billy Sinclair, an inmate sentenced to death for an accidental murder during a robbery gone wrong. Having experienced the corruption of the criminal justice system first-hand, Billy had started a crusade for reform. When the couple married by proxy a year after meeting, Jodie took up Billy's fight. From then on, Jodie lived with one foot in the outside world and one in the complex and dehumanizing bureaucracy of the prison world. This incredible memoir tracks her heroic twenty-five-year fight to save her husband from dying in prison, the professional setbacks she suffered for marrying a prisoner, and a pardons scandal in which she wore a wire for the FBI to help expose a conspiracy leading all the way to the governor's office. Love Behind Bars is the uplifting true story of a woman who stood by her man, and in doing so, exposed the horrors of our criminal justice system and became a voice for all those who have loved ones behind bars. |
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Sinclair, Billy Wayne, 1945-
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Sinclair, Jodie, 1938-
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Prisoners' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
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Death row inmates -- United States -- Biography.
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Capital punishment -- United States.
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Biographies.
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True crime stories.
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Electronic books.
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Prejean, Sister Helen, other.
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| ISBN |
9781948924856 (e-pub) |
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9781948924849 (print) |
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