War on the family: mothers in prison and the families they leave behind

Introduction

Collateral damage in the war on drugs

Joanetta's world

Lost childhood : a family narrative

Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella

Expendable bodies, racialized policies

Incarceration : theater of terror

Teen mothers and the infants who saved them

Children in the other America

Gonna rise : Pam's story

Eye on the prize : theorizing change

What is to be done in the meantime?

Beating the odds

Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.