Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in US Prisons

Vernetta D. Young; Rebecca Reviere

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006

Women Behind Bars

Gender and Race in US Prisons

Vernetta D. Young and Rebecca Reviere

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685853563

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Today's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement--with serious ramifications for the corrections system. Women Behind Bars offers the first comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by incarcerated women in the United States. Young and Reviere show conclusively that serving time in prisons designed by and for men not only does little to address what landed women, particularly women of color, there in the first place, but also undermines their prospects for an improved life on the outside. Using a multifaceted race/class/gender lens, the authors make a convincing argument that women in prison are punished twice: first by their sentences, and again because the policies that govern time behind bars were not designed to address women's unique problems and responsibilities.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1 Equal Rights or Lost Opportunities? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1 Women in the Prison System
2 A Brief History of Punishment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 Evolving Prisons and the Changing Face of Female Prisoners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PART 2 Women Prisoners: Special Issues
4 Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Treatment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5 Physical and Mental Health Care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6 Physical and Mental Health Care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 Death and Dying Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8 We Want You Back: The Return to Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
PART 3 Conclusion
9 Still More Problems Than Solutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
About the Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 219

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Published: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781685853563