Explores issues related to female imprisonment, discussing mental illness, health care, safety, the effects on the family, and international offenders, and describing women's prisons.

Women and crime : who is in prison and why? -- Women's prisons : what's it like to live behind bars? -- Mental illness, health care, and other special issues for incarcerated women -- Safe behind bars? : women guarded by men -- Family affair : incarcerated women and the families they leave behind -- International offenders : imprisoned women around the world -- Helping women inmates : what works?.