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Year 3, Book 65
65. Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of Prison by Megan Comfort
This book is based on Comfort's doctoral dissertation. She studied the lives of women whose significant other was imprisoned in San Quentin. She discusses such issues as how the lives of the women are affected in terms of finances and living situation as well as how they too in some respects become part of the prison system having to follow it's not always consistent rules to visit and keep in contact with their partners. She also gives time to such issues as why women choose to stay with men after they go to prison or even begin relationships with men who are already in prison. I found it to be a very interesting book. Parts of it are very filled with theory and references to other studies, so it's not a light reading book. But well worth reading if you're interested in a sociological study of this population. I give it an 8 out of 10.