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WOMEN BEHIND BARS RECEIVES PREVENTION FOR A SAFER SOCIETY'S (PASS) 2007 LITERARY AWARD
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System by Silja J. A. Talvi, has received the National Council on Crime and Delinquency's PASS literary award for 2007 for excellence in criminal justice-related reporting. The PASS Awards (Prevention for a Safer Society) is the only national recognition of print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, and writers, and those in film and literature who try to focus America’s attention on our criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, and child welfare systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner.
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ISBN-10: 1580051952 ISBN-13: 9781580051958 300 pages Paperback $15.95 Publisher Seal Press November 2007 More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there’s been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? BUY THE BOOK - Amazon Powell's Other resources |
"Beautifully written and meticulously argued, Women Behind Bars is a plea for a new understanding of justice. It is a book that deserves a place in any policy debate about incarceration, and about the increasing numbers of women prisoners in particular."
-Sasha Abramsky, author of American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment.
"A riveting, heartbreaking, and insightful account of a crisis hiding in plain sight--the explosion in the number of incarcerated women in the United States. In mournful and disturbing detail, Talvi documents how incarcerated women, many of whom are victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, are abused time and again by the criminal justice system."
-Marie Gottschalk, author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America.
"I've read few accounts of social injustice that have aroused in me such intense feelings of sadness, shame, and rage. As a cop for thirty-four years, I confess to having given only passing thought to what happened to women after they're arrested and ultimately sentenced to prison. I have been stripped of my ignorance by Women Behind Bars. The agonizing experiences of many of these women, described so eloquently by Talvi, will haunt me for the rest of my days."
-Norm Stamper, PhD, Seattle Chief of Police (Ret.), author of Breaking Rank.