Karen MacLeishKaren MacLeish has worked as a correctional officer in both maximum and minimum security prisons in the Midwest. She began her career in the prison system when hiring women in male institutions was new. I learned, she says, that a woman who was self-onfident and didn t hide behind the power of her badge, had an easier time in the job than many of the male officers because some of the men, both inmates and officers, seemed always to have a need confront each other and prove their masculinity over and over. The prisoners wanted to show their better side to women officers in most instances, even keeping their language clean. After relocating to the southwest, Ms. MacLeish worked as an Intensive Probation Surveillance Officer before attending law school at the University of Arizona. She has had several short stories published in Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine, recently published A Loaf of Dead, A Jug of Crime, and Thou: This is her first novel and was titled Criminal Justice before. Read More Read Less