Drawing on research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women's imprisonment

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

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

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

People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suff