Women in prison.

Women in Prison

Women In Prison: A Review of the Current Female Prison System: Future Directions and Alternatives

A review of relevant literature has indicated that women are sentenced inconsistently by the criminal justice system showing differences between harsh, equal or lenient treatment. This dissertation highlights that sending women to prison, who tend not commit serious crime and drawing a prison population who have the characteristics of economic and social deprivation, is completely unnecessary. ...

Under Lock and Key—A Study of Women in Prison

By Xenia Field. (Max Parrish, 30s.) Mrs. Field has set herself a difficult task in attempting to describe, in a comparative. short book, the various penal institutions for women in England, their administr tion, staffing, and, hardest of all, their inmates, whose personalities and offences ^ also discussed. Her object in writing it is to plead that women, or all but a stfj minority, should be k...

Indicators of psychiatric disorder among women admitted to prison.

A random sample of 708 women prisoners recently admitted to Holloway Prison was screened for evidence of psychiatric disorder. Of the 708 women, 195 had a history of self harm, 44 of whom had a history of cutting themselves, 125 had a history of psychiatric illness, 99 were dependent on opiates, and 89 took psychotropic drugs regularly. These findings suggest that there is a need for psychiatri...

Sexual misconduct in prison: What factors affect whether incarcerated women will report abuses committed by prison staff?

More than 80,000 prisoners each year are sexually victimized during incarceration, but only about 8% report victimization to correctional authorities. Complicating reporting is the fact that half of the perpetrators are staff members. Given the restrictive and highly regulated prison environment, studies that examine reporting behaviors are difficult to conduct and to date information available...