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Women behind bars : the crisis of women in the U.S. prison system /
More and more women--mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters--are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of wom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Emeryville, CA :
Seal Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | More and more women--mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters--are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why?. The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in which investigative journalist Silja Talvi sheds light on why American girls and women are being locked up at such unprecedented rates. Talvi travels across the country to weave together interviews. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 359 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786750795 0786750790 1283007940 9781283007948 9786613007940 6613007943 |