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An invisible woman is laid to rest

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

An invisible woman is laid to rest E.J. Montini Arizona Republic For most of her adult life, 48-year-old Marcia Powell was invisible. Then she died, and slowly came into view. If you were required in school to read H.G. Wells' science fiction masterpiece "The Invisible Man" you'll recall that the troubled scientist called Griffin formulated a recipe for invisibility that, we learn tragically, wears off after death. As it turns out, the same holds true in real life. The diabolical concoction that lead to Marcia Powell's invisibility was a mixture of mental illness, drugs and ignorance. (Ours, not hers.) Today, At Shadow Rock United Church of Christ in Phoenix, Powell will be laid to rest. She was a troubled adopted girl when she first ran away from home in California...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).