Dr. Helen Clarke Molanphy is political science emeritus professor at Richland College in Dallas, Texas. She has taught sociology and criminal justice courses at various institutions including Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas at Dallas, Adams State University, the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and the Santa Fe Community College. Molanphy is the author of a family memoir, Over P.J. Clarke's Bar: Tales from New York's Famous Saloon, using her maiden name, Helen Marie Clarke. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, John Molanphy.
This book is an excellent survey of the pervasive issues that plague the American Prison System, and it eloquently interrogates valuable solutions for those very problems. Dr. Tyrell Connor, Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz