cover image They Always Call Us

They Always Call Us

Jean Harris, J. Harris. Zebra, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8217-2986-1

This ``muffled cry from hell''--from the woman who was convicted of murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower in the 1980 ``Scarsdale Diet case''--leaves little doubt that most women's prisons in the U.S. are human warehouses that further degrade inmates instead of redirecting their lives. According to PW , Harris's call for prison reform ``is marred by a self-pitying tone and a shapeless narrative structure.'' (May)