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Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing criminal justice presence in U.S. communities of Color. Recent research on this system of social control has demonstrated how African American men who live in segregated neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by their legal standing, especially in their attempts to avoid imprisonment when “on the run.” Building on this work, this chapter focuses on the unique and understudied experiences that young Latinas face while attempting to avoid rearrests and recidivism within a working-class Latina/o barrio. Using two years of ethnographic research and over fifty in-depth semistructured interviews with young Latinas in Southern California, the authors find these young women continuously encounter the threat of imprisonment and gendered structural violence on the streets. This in turn shapes how these young people of Color negotiate being “on the run.” This chapter provides an in-depth and unique understanding of how Latinas manage their lives, while avoiding surveillance and detection. Moreover, this research speaks to the small but growing amount of work that addresses how the justice system has reshaped the structural arrangements around the community, the family, and work as the threat of imprisonment has increasingly affected the lives of Latinas in the United States.

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