title: A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women
author:  Erin George 
description: <br><strong>Erin George</strong> is an inmate at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia, where she is serving a life sentence for murder. <br><br><strong>Robert Johnson</strong> is Professor of Justice, Law, and Society in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He has published extensively on prison and the death penalty, and is the editor of Victor Hassine's <em>Life Without Parole,</em> Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009).<br>
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  # White Queen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Songbird Investigations Book 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## K.G. Sander
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Step forward.”
  
  
  She obliged, stepping through the cell door.
  
  
  The last time she’d ever do that.
  
  
  Sadness creeped in, a surprise. Thirty years in prison. Thirty. No opportunity
  for parole. No chance of minimum security. Definitely not out for good
  behavior.
  
  
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