Breaking women
Subtitle: gender, race, and the new politics of imprisonment
By: Jill A. McCorkel
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780814761489; 9780814761496
Subjects: Corrections; Services for; Women prisoners; Rehabilitation; Female offenders
First sentence: "I'm lost, I've had to surrender my self."
Description: "Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women?s rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. This book draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women?s prison to uncover why tougher drug policies have so greatly affected those incarcerated there, and how the very nature of punishment in women?s detention centers has been deeply altered as a result." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index.