The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of fema

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This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is t

An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates,