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Title Releasing hope : women's stories of transition from prison to community / edited by Ruth Elwood Martin, Mo Korchinski, Lynn Fels and Carl Leggo
Published Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications & Education Inc., 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Summary "Releasing Hope was born out of the first book, Arresting Hope, which describes participatory health research and the experience of women incarcerated inside a British Columbian provincial correctional centre from 2005 to 2007. Readers of Arresting Hope, moved by the stories written by incarcerated women, asked, 'What happened next?' And, 'How are the women doing, now that they are released from prison?' Starting in 2007, women who were released from prison formed a network called Women in2 Healing because they wished to continue participatory health research in the community. Their overarching research question was, 'How can we improve the health of women in prison and following their release?' Releasing Hope describes the journeys of formerly incarcerated women and their encounters with the barriers (financial, emotional, familial, systemic) that they confronted during their reintegration in the community. Releasing Hope touches on the stories of individual women and the learning from participatory health research that made visible their lives, their hopes, their dreams and fears."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Biography
Canada
Health and hygiene
Hope
Mental health
Services for
Social conditions
Women ex-convicts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Women ex-convicts -- Canada -- Biography
Women ex-convicts -- Services for -- Canada
Women ex-convicts -- Health and hygiene -- Canada
Women ex-convicts -- Mental health -- Canada
Women ex-convicts -- Canada -- Social conditions
Hope.
Hope
Women ex-convicts
Canada
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Ruth Elwood, 1954- editor.
Korchinski, Mo, 1966- editor.
Fels, Lynn, 1955- editor.
Leggo, Carleton Derek, 1953-2019, editor.
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