Love in the Time of Incarceration

Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons

By: Elizabeth Greenwood

Narrated by: Elizabeth Greenwood

This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside “is impossible to put down” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).

What is it like to fall in love with someone in prison?

Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration. In Love Lockdown, she pulls back the curtain on the lives of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people in prisons around the United States. In the vein of Modern Love, this book shines a light on how these relationships reflect the desire and delusion we all experience in our romantic pairings.

Love Lockdown infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of—from conjugal visits to prison weddings to relationships between the incarcerated themselves. “A tour de force of empathetic nonfiction storytelling” (Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines), Love Lockdown changes the way you look at the American prison system and perhaps relationships in general.

Also published as Love in the Time of Incarceration.

Interesting Couples

Love Lockdown was read for a bookclub read. It would not have been a topic I would have read. I found it interesting and unbelievable that Journey would put up with behaviors from Bennie.
I will just say that everyone needs someone to love and I guess a prison marriage is better than being alone. Not a path I would pursue.

Help to feel normal

The stories are relatable and made me feel normal in my own way. It allowed me to know I’m not alone and in any relationship their are obstacles it is in the end the work we put forth positive energy and lots of communication.

what a great book

this book is more than what the title says, if you have a friend or a loved one who is doing a substantial amount of time and has an ending date this is definitely a great book. you don't have to be in love or in a prison relationship, even being a mother or a friend to an incarcerated loved one this book has a lot of great eye-opening information definitely a must read!

To much gay not a fan

I’m not interested in hearing all about gay love or what ever weird shit was going on during.