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The Invisible Sentence: A fascinating memoir from the wife of a prisoner and how her family survived outside the prison wire / Verna McFelin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Everyone Has a Story , 2021.Description: 146 p. ; 229 x 152mmISBN:
  • 9780473562779
  • 0473562774
Subject(s): Summary: The incredible story of how a woman and her family survived poverty and injustices, and yet received miraculous provision. How did a woman who suffered such trauma go on to change the face of the justice system in New Zealand and the world? Verna's and her children's lives changed forever when police knocked on her door one evening and her husband was arrested for a kidnapping then tried and sentenced to eleven years in jail. While visiting various prisons over the next few years, Verna realised that the families of prisoners were also serving their own invisible sentences outside the prison wire.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction 365.66 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00816773
Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction Non Fiction 365.66 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00785604

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The incredible story of how a woman and her family survived poverty and injustices, and yet received miraculous provision. How did a woman who suffered such trauma go on to change the face of the justice system in New Zealand and the world? Verna's and her children's lives changed forever when police knocked on her door one evening and her husband was arrested for a kidnapping then tried and sentenced to eleven years in jail. While visiting various prisons over the next few years, Verna realised that the families of prisoners were also serving their own invisible sentences outside the prison wire.

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