Introduction
Collateral damage in the war on drugs
Joanetta's world
Lost childhood : a family narrative
Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella
Expendable bodies, racialized policies
Incarceration : theater of terror
Teen mothers and the infants who saved them
Children in the other America
Gonna rise : Pam's story
Eye on the prize : theorizing change
What is to be done in the meantime?
Beating the odds
Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.