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An important and timely book, Jailcare lays bare how we have neglected the social safety net and distorted the ways in which we care for our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by enacting policies that devalue the lives of women and their children. * Journal of Children and Poverty * Insightful and convincing. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute * A sobering critique of the new administration's social, judicial, and economic policies and its potential effects on mass incarceration. * Somatosphere * A welcome addition to a troublingly small body of scholarship on the subject. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *

Insightful and convincing. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute * An important and timely book, Jailcare lays bare how we have neglected the social safety net and distorted the ways in which we care for our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by enacting policies that devalue the lives of women and their children. * Journal of Children and Poverty *

A welcome addition to a troublingly small body of scholarship on the subject. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly * A sobering critique of the new administration's social, judicial, and economic policies and its potential effects on mass incarceration. * Somatosphere * Insightful and convincing. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute * An important and timely book, Jailcare lays bare how we have neglected the social safety net and distorted the ways in which we care for our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by enacting policies that devalue the lives of women and their children. * Journal of Children and Poverty *

An important and timely book, Jailcare lays bare how we have neglected the social safety net and distorted the ways in which we care for our most vulnerable and marginalized citizens by enacting policies that devalue the lives of women and their children. * Journal of Children and Poverty *

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Carolyn Sufrin is a medical anthropologist and an obstetrician-gynecologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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