War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind /
Renny Golden.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Collateral damage in the war on drugs -- Joanetta's world -- Lost childhood : a family narrative -- Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella -- Expendable bodies, racialized policies -- Incarceration : theater of terror -- Teen mothers and the infants who saved them -- Children in the other America -- Gonna rise : Pam's story -- Eye on the prize : theorizing change -- What is to be done in the meantime? -- Beating the odds -- Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.
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Prisoners' families--United States. Women prisoners--United States. Women prisoners--Family relationships--United States. Children of women prisoners--United States.