In March 1975, Brook Carey was selected from among three hundred
applicants to serve as warden of the California Institution for
Women even though she had no background in Corrections. She was
handed a ring of keys and a paperback copy of "Helter Skelter," the
story of Charles Manson. Nobody told her that the plan was for her
to be a figurehead while her subordinates ran the prison behind her
back.
So begins the improbable-but true-story, told by Carey herself,
of an outsider's tumultuous year inside the hidden world of
California's women's correctional system. Her scant orientation
scarcely prepared her for the challenges: an inadequate budget, a
stifling bureaucracy, a riot threat, and, oh yes, the Manson
Family. It just so happened that Carey's new workplace was home to
the "Manson girls," and the determined followers of Manson took
delight in making death threats to wardens who incarcerated Manson
"Family" members.
Against the odds, Carey used creativity and courage as she
confronted a dangerous and daunting environment, making essential
improvements for inmates and meeting personally with Charles Manson
at San Quentin. "The Accidental Warden" is both an astonishing tale
of one woman rising to the occasion and an extraordinary look into
the mysterious micro-society of a women's prison.
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