Young foreign women in prison: A case study in Malaga prison

Women in Prison

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...

Unresolved grief in young offenders in prison.

The study aimed to pilot a grief awareness programme as a health promotion project for young offenders with complicated grief. Seventeen young offenders in custody at HM Prison, Cardiff were opportunistically recruited, interviewed about their bereavement, and offered entry to the programme. Young offenders who reported coping poorly with bereavement were more likely to have used drugs to cope ...

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. ...

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...