Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich -- The Canadian landscape for incarcerated mothers: lessons, challenges and innovations / Dena Derkzen and Kelly Taylor (Canada) -- Incarcerating Aboriginal mothers: a cost too great / Gordana Eljdupovic, Terry Mitchell, Lori Curtis, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Alison Granger-Brown, Courtney Arseneau and Brooke Fry (Canada) -- When motherhood is the crime: incarcerating adolescent mothers in Canada / Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich (Canada) -- Mothers and babies in French prisons: cultural and legal variables / Martine Herzog-Evans (France) -- Love behind bars: the darker side of incarcerating mothers / Deseriee A. Kennedy (USA) -- Mitigating the plight of incarcerated mothers in India: issues and policy interventions / Upneet Lalli (India) -- Care and respect: mothering and relatedness in multigenerational prison settings / Manuela P. da Cunha and Rafaela Granja (Portugal) -- Incarcerated indigenous Australian mothers: maintaining patriarchal colonization / Ruth McCausland and Eileen Baldry (Australia) -- Voice of the mothers / Alison with Brenda, Sarah, Martina, Tanya, Devon, Jennifer, Betty, Renne, Patricia, Mo, Kelly and Linnea (Canada) -- "It was easier to say I didn't have kids": mothering, incarceration and relationships with social and criminal justice policies / Olivia Scobie and Amber Gazso (Canada) -- Mothering through adversity: voices of incarcerated mothers / Christine A. Walsh and Meredith Crough (Canada) -- "I wanted to be, I tried to be, I will be a good mother": incarcerated mothers' construal of the mother-role / Gordana Eljdupovic (Canada) -- Incarcerated motherhood: like getting hit in the heart with a dagger / Karen Shain, Lauren Liu and Sarah DeWatch (USA) -- Incarcerating mothers: the effect on the health and social well-being of infants and their mothers / Ruth Elwood Martin, Joshua Lau and Amy Salmon (Canada) -- Mothering against the norms: Diane Wilson and environmental activism / Danielle Poe (USA) -- Sorry I left you / Julie Herrnkind.