Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the by Megan Comfort
By Megan Comfort
Megan convenience spent years studying girls vacationing males at San Quentin country felony, gazing how their romantic relationships drew them into touch with the penal complex. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and inflexible principles turns those girls into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary among domestic and felony and changing their feel of intimacy, love, and justice. but convenience additionally reveals that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the main robust public associations to be had to girls suffering to beat untreated social ills and maintain relationships with marginalized males. for this reason, they exhibit nice ambivalence in regards to the legal and the keep an eye on it exerts over their day-by-day lives.
An illuminating research of ladies stuck within the shadow of America’s big felony process, Comfort’s ebook should be crucial for a person eager about the results of our punitive culture.
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