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It is December 16th, 1997. I think of the imprisoned mothers who, because they are in gaol for a relatively minor crime, won’t be with their children this Christmas. I think, too, of the young girls who have already spent most of their childhoods in institutions, and who will this year be locked up in a prison cell for much of Christmas Day.
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Carlen, P. (1998). The Futures of Women’s Imprisonment. In: Sledgehammer. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375352_5
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