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ISBN: | 9780226114682 0226114686 9780226114620 0226114627 9780226114637 0226114635
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Digital file characteristics: | text file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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 Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fianceĢs, 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. T.
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Other form: | Print version: Comfort, Megan. Doing time together. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
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Standard no.: | 99932989542
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