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Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars by Carolyn Sufrin (review)

Carolyn Sufrin concludes Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars with a poem from one of the key figures in her ethnography—Kima, a young woman continuously cycling between San Francisco jail, the city’s Tenderloin district, and drug treatment programs in the Bay area. Kima’s “Poetry Blues” speaks of the promise of redemption imbricated in incarceration: “Exploitation of guilt without a last name./ A rectifiable beat that ticks to no end” (243). Sufrin grapples with the sense of guilt and ambivalence that pervades the San Francisco jail clinic for pregnant women, noting that theoretical terms like structural violence or the prisonindustrial complex often fail to provide closure for those most affected. Indebted to works like Righteous Dopefiend (Bourgois and Schonberg 2009) and Addicted.pregnant.poor (Knight 2015), and careful to contend with the ethnographic scholarship that has already been conducted on structural disenfranchisement in the United States, Sufrin stipulates that her “observant participation” as a physician and anthropologist within the San Francisco jail aims to “destabiliz[e] monolithic representations of prisons (and the limited depictions of jails) as sites where only discipline and punishment occur” (33). Instead, Jailcare seeks to complicate characterizations of the carceral system that leave no room for ambiguity, or the possibilities of intimacy and care behind bars. Sufrin’s notion of care operates on three dimensions—“as concern, as relationship, and as practice” (21), a conceptual approach that allows the author to situate the San