War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Children They Leave Behind
When most people think of prisoners, they think of men. Yet women are the fastest growing prison population. Perhaps more surprising, some 75% of women behind bars are mothers. Each year these mothers leave behind 350,000 children under the age of 18. More than half of mothers in state prisons never see their children during their incarceration.\ In The War on the Family, noted social rights activist Renny Golden shows that as a direct result of President Ronald Reagan's administration's War...
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In this timely book, renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison population-a direct result of Reagan's War on Drugs-Golden sets up new framework for thinking about how to address the situation of mothers in prison, the risks and needs of their children and the implications of current judicial policies.
Ch. 1Collateral damage in the war on drugs1Ch. 2Joanetta's world9Ch. 3Lost childhood : a family narrative19Ch. 4Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella29Ch. 5Expendable bodies, racialized policies45Ch. 6Incarceration : theater of terror59Ch. 7Teen mothers and the infants who saved them69Ch. 8Children in the other America77Ch. 9Gonna rise : Pam's story89Ch. 10Eye on the prize : theorizing change101Ch. 11What is to be done in the meantime?113Ch. 12Beating the odds125
