No safe haven : stories of women in prison /

No safe haven : stories of women in prison / Lori B. Girshick.

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"This work draws on the life stories of forty women inmates at a minimum security prison in North Carolina. It explores their lives before imprisonment, enabling the reader to understand their incarceration within the context of childhood and adolescent experiences, domestic violence, alcohol a...

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Main Author: Girshick, Lori B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©1999.
Series:Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
Subjects:
Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Women prisoners > North Carolina > Interviews.
Women prisoners > North Carolina > Social conditions.
Women prisoners.
Women prisoners > Social conditions.
North Carolina.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Women in prison
  • 3. Growing up
  • 4. Adult lives and the crimes
  • 5. Doing time
  • 6. Family and friends
  • 7. Addressing chronic needs through programming
  • 8. Community involvement and societal change
  • 9. No safe haven : policy recommendations and concluding remarks.

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