Interrupted LifeExperiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

Experiences of incarcerated women in the United States

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ID19975260
AuthorsRickie Solinger, Paula C Johnson (0000-0002-6750-9843), Martha L Raimon, Ruby Tapia, Tina Reynolds
Year2010
Pages480
Publication date2010-01-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInterrupted life (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520252493.001.0001
OpenAlexW2579188568
Open LibraryOL23575225M
ISBN9780520252493
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This book is a collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This work brings together many voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women prisoners' experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these writings are an intense examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten the current prison system in the United States

Criminology · Irrational number · Political science · Population · Prison · Prison population · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Law · Children of women prisoners · Family & Relationships · Female offenders · Social conditions · united states · Women · Women prisoners

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