scroll through the pages with the arrows at the middle edges of the book This is a fairly hardscrabbled collection of confessional verse that touches the heart like a stab wound from a dying cactus. Outside of the fact that these women were criminals there is nothing outstanding about the works. Still, it quenches my ephemeral lust just a little. I did research one case, that of Charlene Westerville, a baby killer, and that can be read on my now defunct Eloise blog . The other prisoner contributors are as follows: PUSH ON PEOPLE by Glenda Faye Buffing THE WAY I FEEL by Harriet Walker THE RUDE AWAKENING by Jannie Thomas THOUGHTS OF YOU by Sanda Watkins WHAT IS IT? by Ann Marie Felton SNOW by Sandra Magnuson WHERE HAVE I BEEN, WHERE AM I GOING? by Yvonne Patrick Kaufman I REMEMBER by Anonymous REFLECTION by Anonymous DEATH OF NOT ENOUGH by Sylvia Peper JAIL by Willie Jones LIFE by Ruth Ann Nichols PETRIFIED by ShaBooDie CLOUDS by Mary Cuevas HERE I SIT by Arcenia Skinner WORDS OF WISDOM ...