Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States

Resource Information

The work Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States

Title remainder

experiences of incarcerated women in the United States

Statement of responsibility

edited by Rickie Solinger [and others]

Contributor

• Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Subject

• Children of women prisoners
• Children of women prisoners -- Services for
• Children of women prisoners -- Services for -- United States
• Female offenders
• Female offenders -- United States
• United States
• Women prisoners
• Women prisoners -- Abuse of
• Women prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
• Women prisoners -- Family relationships
• Women prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States
• Women prisoners -- United States
• Women's health services
• Women, Government policy
• Womens prisons

Language

eng

Summary

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including those of incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and others. These vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences behind bars, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system. -- from back cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

365/.430973

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV9471

LC item number

.I63 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography