Bad Girls - Dale Griffith Summary and Analysis

"Bad Girls" is written by Dale Griffith. Dale is not a prisoner at York but a teacher there. She is the one who talks Wally Lamb into coming to York to conduct the writing workshops.

Dale first hears about Niantic from her mother when she is a very young girl. They are driving by, and her mother tells her not to act up or she will end up there. That's where they send the "bad" girls.

Over thirty years later, Dale is a forty-year-old single mother who is in dire need of a job. She applies for a teaching position at Niantic. On her first visit, she has second thoughts. She's not sure the good salary and great health benefits are worth the stress of working with thugs. But by the end of...