Victims and Vultures

Abstract

One October 2009 evening, I was browsing the web and ran across the following headline: “16yr old gets life in prison for killing her pimp.” Perhaps a considerable awareness of internet culture—Shock and Awe = Traffic—prompted the initial skepticism, but upon clicking this YouTube video link all ambiguity vanished, for I soon learned of Sarah Kruzan, 31, a female inmate in California. Filmed by the National Center for Youth Law, an advocacy group assisting her, Sarah detailed her background and the path leading up to the prison cell in which she currently resides.