Elizabeth Greenwood’s new book, “Love Lockdown,” investigates dating and marriage in America’s prison system, and the author knows you’ll come to it with preconceived notions. “Most of us have heard about this phenomenon: people (usually women) pursuing criminals (usually men, always famous) whom they’ve learned about on the nightly news,” Greenwood writes. “The higher the profile of the criminal, the more Heloises to the Abelard.” But in researching “Love Lockdown,” Greenwood met people and learned about relationships that were less salacious and more representative of the lives of the incarcerated. It grew out of reporting I did for my first book, “Playing Dead,” which is about people who faked their own deaths or disappeared. So I thought, I want to talk to some of these people, I want to know about this.

Source: New York Times July 07, 2021 15:22 UTC