War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind /
Golden, Renny.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Collateral damage in the war on drugs -- Joanetta's world -- Lost childhood : a family narrative -- Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella -- Expendable bodies, racialized policies -- Incarceration : theater of terror -- Teen mothers and the infants who saved them -- Children in the other America -- Gonna rise : Pam's story -- Eye on the prize : theorizing change -- What is to be done in the meantime? -- Beating the odds -- Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.
Prisoners' families
Women prisoners
Women prisoners
Children of women prisoners