Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System

Silja Talvi

Seal Press, Nov 2, 2007 - Law - 320 pages

More and more women--mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters--are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's bee

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
• Author: Silja Talvi
• Publisher: Seal Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0786750790, 9780786750795
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Law / General; Social Science / Penology