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Women Imprisoned
Group #2, Angel, Bria, Mike, Shakira, Yashaira
Female Institutions
• Are strictly Penal ( steel bars, concrete floors ext.)
• Majority are none secure and similar to college dormitories and group
homes.
• Woman suffer from lack of adequate training
• Lack of health and treatment
• Lack of educational facilities.
• Little effort made to help with developing better parenting skills.
• Job-training opportunities are also a problem.
Exhibit 12.1
Female Inmates
• Unlike male inmates female inmates are younger (most are under 30)
• Minority group members
• Unmarried
• Undereducated
• Underemployed / Unemployed
• Poor, unskilled woman of color who have small children
• Have health problems
• History of abuse
• Incarcerated for low-level drug or property offenses.
Female Inmates #2
• Women report of having substance abuse problems
• Three-fourth of women have used drug at some time in their lives.
• Because of prior history of drug abuse there is a higher risk of
exposure to HIV
• Reports or trading sex for money or drugs (weekly of more often)
Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons
• Female prisoners being sexually abused and exploited by male
correctional workers
• Use of brute force, coercion to gain sexual control
• Lewd remarks , voyeurism, Assault and rape
• Perpetrator rarely go to trial
• Workers cover for each other
• Few of the women act with what is called “Adolescent behavior”
Adapting to Female Institution
• Forced to undergo a prison socialization fraught with danger and
volatile situations
• Female inmates are more likely to mutilate their own bodies and to
attempt suicide
• Make-believe family ( substitute family group – faux father, Mother,
and siblings)
• Inmates may play multiple roles