“The Women's Detention Center is a gloomy pile of masonry at the edge of the ghetto, formerly used by the police department as a temporary lock-up for people taken into custody. Since 1966 it has been used for detention of women awaiting trial and as a reformatory for sentenced women. Once inside, we were taken in charge by several women guards, sym bolically clanking real keys.”
Milford opens the reader’s eyes to the lunacies, the delusions, the frauds, the new Clockwork Orange horrors, the outrageous finances, the sheer grotesqueness of what we euphemistically call our "correctional facilities."
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 340 pages. Dust jacket (price clipped) in very good condition with some edge wear. Boards clean with only bumping to corners. Binding solid. Slight forward lean of the spine. Pages tanned with some foxing on fore edge. Nice copy.
