TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Vernetta D.
AU  - Reviere,Rebecca
TI  - Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in US Prisons 
SN  - 9781685853563
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685853563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685853563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685853563/original
ER  -