Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
by
Carolyn Sufrin
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic...