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Author Devlin, Angela

Title Invisible women : what's wrong with women's prisons? / Angela Devlin
Published Winchester : Waterside Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents Cover -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE Who Goes to Prison? -- TWO Sweatboxes -- THREE Mums Inside -- FOUR Green and Friendly -- FIVE Kicking Off -- SIX Screws and Cons -- SEVEN Turning the Screw -- EIGHT Twisted Sisters? -- NINE Drugs: A Conspiracy Of Silence -- TEN Poor Mules and Strong Fighters -- ELEVEN In Sickness and in Health? -- TWELVE Slashers and Swingers -- THIRTEEN The Dreaded 'TOB' -- FOURTEEN Devils' Advocates? -- FIFTEEN Rag Dolls and Muppet Shops -- SIXTEEN Gate Fever and Liberty Clothes
EPILOGUE What of the Future?Appendix 1: Prison Visits and Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
Summary Annotation More and more women are being sent to prison: at the time when this book was written UK numbers had doubled over the last five years, and the Prison Reform Trust called this 'a rate of increase without precedent in the modern era.' Indeed, the figures for
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index
Notes English
Subject Female offenders -- Great Britain
Reformatories for women -- Great Britain
Women prisoners -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Female offenders.
Reformatories for women.
Women prisoners.
Great Britain.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781906534295
1906534292
1872870597
9781872870595
1281124605
9781281124609
9786611124601
6611124608
Other Titles What's wrong with women's prisons?