Invisible Women: What's Wrong with Women's Prisons?
- ISBN-10
- 1872870597
- ISBN-13
- 9781872870595
- Series
- Invisible Women
- Category
- Criminals
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Waterside Press
- Author
- Angela Devlin
Description
In a book that is accessible to general readers and professionals alike, Angela Devlin has vividly recreated the realities of prison life for women at the end of the twentieth century. She describes the cavalier way in which women can be treated; the lack of provision for many basic needs; the over crowding; the liberal use of medication as a means of control; the violence which stems from drug misuse; the plight of black and ethnic minority women and foreign nationals; and the self-mutilation and suicide attempts of women in desperate need of help. Invisible Women 'lifts the lid' on women's prisons. It is a book that will shock as well as inform.
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