Women behind bars : gender and race in US prisons / Vernetta D. Young, Rebecca Reviere.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Vernetta D.
Other Authors: Reviere, Rebecca
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:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.