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This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and policy. It examines women's prisons in England from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, drawing attention to the detrimental effect the orthodox closed prison has on penal reform. The text investigates the clash between what was conceptualised as desirable prison policy and the actual implementation and implications of such a penalty on the prisoner. It challenges previous claims made about the invisibility of women prisoners in historical penal policy, and

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Survivor narratives and unfinished histories -- Chapter 2: Epistemic injustice and credible subjects -- Chapter 3: Silence, voice and the ethics of communication -- Chapter 4: Inside the institution: Discipline and penance -- Chapter 5: Fractured endings and new meanings: Religion and respectability -- Chapter 6: Public silence and official voice: Inquiry, apology and redress -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Challenging a lingering silence -- Appendix A: List of Magdalene institutions -- Appendix B: List of interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In March 2013, Vicky Pryce was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting her ex-husband's penalty points on her driving licence some ten years earlier. After a very public trial, she was sent first to the notorious Holloway and then to East Sutton Park, an open prison in Kent. Inside, she kept a diary documenting her views and experiences; from this diary, Prisonomics was born. Faced with the realities of life behind bars and inspired by the stories of the women she met, Pryce began to research the injustices she found within the prison system. In this informed and important criti

Introduction: the politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931) -- The Magdalen asylum and history: mining the archive -- The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland -- Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained glass at Samhain -- (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen survivors: visual representations and documentary testimony -- The Magdalene sisters: film, fact and fiction -- Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: art installations and cultural memory -- Conclusion: history, cultural representation ... action? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book examines the female criminals and the prison conditions and issues they must endure through the lens of a case study in the Karachi womens prison in Pakistan. With higher events of crime and poverty due to COVID-19, this volume considers the worsening conditions for women inmates as it relates to psychological trauma, access to resources, economic factors, and working against the cultural forces and criminal justice forces that contribute to the unstable state of womens prisons. Addressing a gap in literature about female inmates in South Asia and Pakistan this volume is ideal for researchers in feminist criminology, womens studies, prisoner psychology, and for law enforcement agencies.