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Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspec

"Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new."--Mona Danne

People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suff

The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of fema

In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating o