Invisible Prisons
Ken Gilmour
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pat Johnston
, Barry Kazimer
, Agnes Marshall
, Cheryl Johnson
, Carol Brown
, Louise Walsh
, Jude Castillo
, Holly Elisabeth
, Ariane Béland
, Marilyn Stanley
, Beth Dekoker
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Tanya Blake
, Patricia Johnson
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sharon Forzley
, Anne Baldo
, Meghan Barton
, Chantal Comeau
, Randi Ann Doll
, Noelle Walsh
, Brittney Warren
, Leila Grobel
, Dorothy Wong
, Lynn Andrews
, Linda Leitch
, Dorothy Wong
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Melissa Massey
, Carson Loveless
, Damen Rae
, Joseph Chirayil
, Jane McRobb
, Alanna Virtue
, Karen Kendrick
, Malgosia Mikula
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Laurie Burns
, Allison Dube
, MJ Malleck
, Andrea Pole
, Loretta Garbutt
, Mary Therrien
, Stephanie Dayes
, Stephen Pinder
, Russell Reitsema
, Janice Cournoyer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, diana kirkwood
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kim Cappellina
, Sarah Dalton
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Darlene Jilks
, Keltey Buchko
, Kate Rutter
, Hadil Akremi
, jane luce
, Terra Patrick
, Donna Gamache
, Wendy Burleson
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Vicki Bedford
, Thelma Ball
, Margaret McKay
, Wayne Harrigan
, Christine Lion
, Ellen Clarke
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, dawn houldey
, Chantal Vulker
, zelda dwyer
, Joe Titone
, Melanie Solar
, Dietra Reid
, Rachel Edmonds
, Tanya Korigan
, Kathryn Galan
, Wendy Houlden
, Emily Johansen
, Rose Hately
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Patricia Sampson
, Chris Lantz
, Michelle Arsenault
, Kim Carswell
, jen Black
, Rose Ghaedi
, Kym Marsh
, Kevin Smith
, Benita Hartwell
, Rhona Brinkman
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Mary Lester
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kate Kostandoff
, Heather Belliveau
, Pamela Humphrey
, Anne Simonot
, Roland Schigas
, Ruhee Dewji
, Molly Campbell
, Catherine Westerberg
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Marilyn Kaluza Massoud
, Sara Conway
, Ching Ching Wu
, Pamela Jessen
, Carol Saponja
, Mark Gorman
, Andre Sobers
, Emma Phillips
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janet Hosokawa
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Brad MULLER
, Ashley Stones
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Boe Waight
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Lesley Sturge
, Sandra Lackie
, Dale Clarke
, jaynie jackson
, Catherine Young
, Paula Adam
, Jessica Trento
, Taya Young
, Debra Fisher
, Jane Graham
, Morgan Stewart
, Joe Mitchell
, Linda Lefler
, Katie Kah
, toni velthuis
, Marija Dujic
, Huguette Lemieux
, Lucy DaSilva
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Lindsay Simmons
, Kim Rasberry
, Daniela Rowane Thapa
, Dot Mann
, Wanda Bergman
, Dian Anderson
, Kim Fenton
, Mary Danieli
, Mary Montague
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Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love.
Invisible Prisons is an extraordinary, empathetic collaboration between the magnificent writer Lisa Moore, best-known for her award-winning fiction, and a man named Jack Whalen, who as a child was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, where he suffered jaw-dropping abuses and deprivations. Despite the odds stacked against him, he found love on the other side, and managed to turn his life around as a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a lawyer so that she could seek justice for him. Today, that is exactly what she is doing—and Jack's case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts.
The story has parallels with Unholy Orders by Michael Harris about the Mount Cashel orphanage, and with the many horrific stories about residential schools—all of which expose a paternalistic state causing harm and a larger society looking away. Yet two powerful qualities set this story apart. As much as it is about an abusive system preying on children, it is also a tender tale of love between Jack and his wife Glennis, who saw the good man inside a damaged person and believed in him. And it is written in a novelistic way by the great Lisa Moore, who makes vividly real every moment and character in these pages.
