Stanford Ann Folwell
DePaul University, School for New Learning, Chicago, IL, 60604, USA.
J Prev Interv Community. 2005;30(1-2):49-56. doi: 10.1300/J005v30n01_05.
Several definitions of "home," drawn from dozens provided by the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language, underscore how a large urban county jail becomes many forms of home for the women detainees there. Drawing on the women's poetry and the mechanics of creative writing workshops facilitated by the author for the last seven years at Cook County Jail, this essay describes some of the realities of the criminal (in)justice system and how the women's writing becomes a way of writing against the grain of official discourse, thus altering certain definitions of this "home."
从《牛津英语词典》提供的几十种释义中选取的几个“家”的定义，凸显了一个大型城市县监狱如何成为那里女性被拘留者多种形式的家。基于作者在库克县监狱过去七年里推动的女性诗歌创作以及创意写作工作坊的运作情况，本文描述了刑事（非）司法系统的一些现实状况，以及女性写作如何成为一种违背官方话语的写作方式，从而改变了对这个“家”的某些定义。
