Women Behind Bars : Gender and Race in US Prisons / Rebecca Reviere, Vernetta D. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Vernetta D., Author.

Reviere, Rebecca, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

1 Equal Rights or Lost Opportunities?

PART 1 Women in the Prison System

2 A Brief History of Punishment

3 Evolving Prisons and the Changing Face of Female Prisoners

PART 2 Women Prisoners: Special Issues

4 Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Treatment

5 Physical and Mental Health Care

6 Physical and Mental Health Care

7 Death and Dying

8 We Want You Back: The Return to Society

PART 3 Conclusion

9 Still More Problems Than Solutions

References

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-356-0

OCLC:

1334343871