Author: William Neubauer
Published: ©1962
Publisher: Avon Books
Illustrator: Robert Maguire
His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.
Young Nurse Vivian’s
heart went out to the inmates at Clairmount County Correctional Facility. She
knew that a good nurse had to be unemotional, but she also knew that behind
those forbidding walls young girls were being treated like animals! In the hospital
recuperating from a near fatal clubbing she had received at the hands of some
would-be-escapees, Vivian found herself the center of city-wide attention.
Newspaper editorials lauded her heroism; the Mayor himself came to her bedside
to bestow civic awards. But when Vivian argued that the Facility ought to
rehabilitate its inmates instead of brutalizing them, the young nurse made a
powerful enemy of the Mayor whose plans called for closing the Facility and shipping
the girls off to adult prisons. It would take every bit of Vivian’s courage and
determination and the dedicated help of her fiancé—a young lawyer who
represented a group in opposition to the Mayor’s program—to save, and help the
inmates who knew Vivian Hartwell as their Prison Nurse.
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