Birth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Preg. Carey, Carey,**

Birth Behind BarsThe Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison\nAuthor(s): Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479815814, 978-1479815814\nSynopsis\nPregnant women's experiences in prison\n Four percent of incarcerated womenmore than three thousandare pregnant in US prisons each year, yet little information is known about their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood experiences. In Birth Behind Bars, Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey draws on in-depth interviews with women who were once pregnant in prisons in the heart of the Midwest to provide a rare, intimate portrait into the intersection of motherhood and incarceration.\n Using a reproductive-justice framework and narrative accounts, Rodriguez Carey shows how the prison system works alongside other carceral systems, such as the medical system and the child welfare system, to regulate and control women. She reveals how.