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Women behind bars : gender and race in US prisons /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Vernetta D.
Other Authors: Reviere, Rebecca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States.
Minority women > United States > Social conditions.
Minority women > United States > Economic conditions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Equal rights or lost opportunities?
  • A brief history of punishment
  • Evolving prisons and the changing face of female prisoners
  • Drugs : use, abuse, and treatment
  • Physical and mental health care
  • Women and children first
  • Death and dying
  • We want you back : the return to society
  • Still more problems than solutions.