Download or read book Blood on her hands: Women behind bars written by Carla van der Spuy and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a woman kill? And how does it feel to share a cell with these murderers? Carla van der Spuy visits four female correctional facilities across South Africa and gets inside the heads of women who committed violent crimes. She visits the babies born behind bars, celebrates Christmas with the inmates and chats face to face with women who killed with knives, guns and hit men, as well as a kleptomaniac and a prostitute. Women with blood on their hands. What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a person behind the criminal?