Finding Love Behind Bars Might Look Different Than You Think

The New York Times, July 7, 2021: Finding Love Behind Bars Might Look Different Than You Think

“Elizabeth Greenwood’s new book, ‘Love Lockdown,’ investigates dating and marriage in America’s prison system, and the author knows you’ll come to it with preconceived notions. She did herself.

‘Most of us have heard about this phenomenon: people (usually women) pursuing criminals (usually men, always famous) whom they’ve learned about on the nightly news,’ Greenwood writes. ‘The higher the profile of the criminal, the more Heloises to the Abelard.’ But in researching ‘Love Lockdown,’ Greenwood met people and learned about relationships that were less salacious and more representative of the lives of the incarcerated. Below, she describes how she came to the project through a source from a previous book, the solidarity of prisoners’ wives and a filmmaker whose ‘multitude of tones’ inspires her.”

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Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons on bookshop.org

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