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Author Comfort, Megan.

Title Doing time together : love and family in the shadow of the prison / Megan Comfort
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations
Contents Outside the prison walls -- "On-line" at San Quentin -- "We share everything we can the best way we can" -- "Papa's house": the prison as domestic satellite -- "It's a lot of good men behind walls!" -- The long way home
Summary By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation?s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. T
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject California State Prison at San Quentin.
SUBJECT California State Prison at San Quentin fast
Subject Prisoners -- Family relationships -- California -- San Quentin
Prisoners' spouses -- California -- San Quentin
Conjugal visits -- California -- San Quentin
SELF-HELP -- Adult Children of Substance Abusers.
Conjugal visits
Prisoners -- Family relationships
Prisoners' spouses
Prisonniers -- Famille -- Californie (États-Unis)
Visites aux prisonniers -- Californie (États-Unis)
California -- San Quentin
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226114682
0226114686