A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

The author of On the Outside Looking In offers a revealing study of the lives of women behind bars, focusing on the prisoners held at M.C.I. Framingham outside Boston, exploring every facet of prison culture and its impact on the American criminal justice system, and assessing the impact of the incarceration on both the prisoners and their families. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.