| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
California State Prison at San Quentin.
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California State Prison at San Quentin. |
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San Quentin State Prison (Calif.) |
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Prisoners -- Family relationships -- California -- San Quentin.
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Prisoners -- Family relationships. |
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California -- San Quentin. |
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Prisoners. |
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Prisoners' spouses -- California -- San Quentin.
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Prisoners' spouses. |
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Conjugal visits -- California -- San Quentin.
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Conjugal visits. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comfort, Megan. Doing time together. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007000359 |
| ISBN |
9780226114682 (electronic book) |
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0226114686 (electronic book) |
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9780226114620 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226114627 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226114637 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226114635 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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