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Women and Prisons

Watterson, Kathryn. Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb. Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Dubbed “a cold, hard view of life of women in American prisons,” this book presents the life stories of women prisoners and argues that prison is a form of institutional violence perpetrated primarily against the poor and people of color.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012

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