The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of fema

This unique book provides a rare insight into the debilitating impact of regimes that fail to respond to the complex and gender specific needs of women behind b

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its popula

Few empirical studies have focused on women in prison. In the last few years, though, a number of studies have demonstrated that there are fundamental differenc