Doing time together : love and family in the shadow of the prison /

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Author / Creator:Comfort, Megan.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218543
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ISBN:9780226114682
0226114686
9780226114620
0226114627
9780226114637
0226114635
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
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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, fianceĢs, 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.
Other form:Print version: Comfort, Megan. Doing time together. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
Standard no.:99932989542