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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Talvi, Silja J. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States.
Prisonnières > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Women prisoners
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The invisible struggle
  • Here's your one-way ticket to prison
  • Women in wartime
  • Abuse behind the wall
  • Dangerous medicine
  • Trying to stay sane
  • Criminalizing motherhood
  • Women who kill
  • Women loving women
  • Living in the God pod
  • Shipping women's bodies
  • International lockup
  • Hope and healing
  • Afterword: Chasing the beam, chasing dignity.

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