Provides a basic overview of the issues surrounding female inmates and the problems they face as they cope with life behind bars.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Women's prisons : what's it like to live behind bars? -- Mental illness, health care, and other special issues for incarcerated women -- Safe behind bars? : women guarded by men -- Family affair : incarcerated women and the families they leave behind -- International offenders : imprisoned women around the world -- Helping women inmates : what works?.