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Women Behind Bars
Loaded on June 15, 2001
by Silja JA Talvi
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2001, page 1
It's the kind of statistic that deserves repeated mention: America's prisons and jails now hold just under two million persons, or 1 in every 142 U.S. residents.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
HIV/AIDS,
Hepatitis,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
United States of America.
To put America's incarceration rates into perspective, it's worth bearing in mind from 1990 to 2000, U.S. prisons and jails grew by almost ...
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- Women Behind Bars, by Silja JA Talvi
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Strikes Sweep Bolivian Prisons as Promise of Freedom Fades, by Julia Lutsky
- Custodial Rape of Female Prisoners Widespread in U.S., by Roger Smith
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- Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment, Jan. 15, 2004
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