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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index