Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails
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Silja J.A. Talvi is an investigative journalist and the author of Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System (Seal Press: 2007). Her work has already appeared in many book anthologies, including It's So You (Seal Press, 2007), Prison Nation (Routledge: 2005), Prison Profiteers (The New Press: 2008) and Body Outlaws (Seal Press: 2004). She is a senior editor at In These Times.
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