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Prisoners and Their Wives: Marital and Domestic Effects of Telephone Contacts and Home Visits

Laura T. Fishman

Laura T. Fishman, Ph.D.

University of Vermont, Sociology Department, 31 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vermont 05405, U.S.A.

This article examines how wives' continuing relationships with their incarcerated husbands are shaped by prison policies concerning telephone calls and home furloughs. A combination of data sources were used to construct an ethnographic account of the experiences of thirty women married to men incarcerated in two prisons. Findings show that within the constraints of telephone calls and home furloughs, relationships can be strengthened or undermined as prisoners and their wives attempt to resume remnants of their pre-prison marital patterns. Analysis reveals that prison policies believed functional for the prison treatment programs can have dysfunctional consequences for prisonerwife interaction.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 55-66 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X8803200108
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