Preface / Lois Ahrens
Introduction / Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore
Prison town
paying the price / Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore
Readers respond Part 1
Prisoners of the war on drugs / Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens
Readers respond Part 2
Prisoners of a hard life
women and their children / Susan Willmarth, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens.