Women Behind Bars: Gender And Race in US Prisons

By Vernetta D. Young and Rebecca Reviere

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588263959
• ISBN13: 9781588263957
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"