Doing Time Together Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison

Name: Doing Time Together Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
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ISBN: 9780226114637

ISBN-10: 0226114635

ISBN-13: 9780226114637

Edition: 2007

Authors: Megan Comfort

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By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind?Doing Time Togethervividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Outside the Prison Walls



"On-Line" at San Quentin



"We Share Everything We Can the Best Way We Can"



"Papa's House": The Prison as Domestic Satellite



"It's a Lot of Good Men behind Walls!"



The Long Way Home



Setting and Methods



An Orientation to the Research Literature



United States Carceral Population, 1980-2000



Field Documents


References


Index