Fallen Angels: Inside Canada's Toughest Women's Prison

Prison profiles of Canada's most feared women. Fallen Angels is riveting true crime drama at its best, by the women who lived it. In a series of hard-hitting interviews with twelve women behind bars in Canada's notorious Kingston Prison for Women before its closure, Tadman allows the women to tell their stories in their own words. Through their harrowing stories the women reveal their childhoods, their lives, and their crimes for all to see. But questions are also raised about the treatment of women in prisons, particularly in view of the incident in 1994 in which a male riot squad stormed the confines of the prison, subjecting female prisoners to inhumane and abusive treatment. "You could be walking around our house and it would seem to be every child's dream. But when you live in my house it's every child's nightmare. "I said, "Shut up or I'm going to stab you." He said, "Go ahead." So I did. I stabbed him in the heart. "It's a very scary thing. To come in, be put in a cell, hear the cell doors clang, have no one and nothing, knowing that you're not getting any visits. You're on your own and you're looking at life-25...I've been there. I've done it all. I've seen it all.
It ain't no good. There is a better life."