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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a "crime" that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory. They also endured suspect medical examinations. When Demerson was fin No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)365.43Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Penal & related institutions Institutions for specific types of inmates Women in prisonLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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