Female prisoners in the United States make up about seven percent of prison population.
Although, in the last past decades, the numbers of female prisoners had increased at worldwide level, women still make a minority population compared to male prisoners. Female offenders were segregated with the purpose to give them the same treatment and provide similar programs as male offenders; unfortunately, in many cases female offenders are treated worse than male prisoners and less programs and opportunities are offered inside the facilities. They receive less attention than their counterparts, and many of those female prisons faced overcrowding because few prisons were built for female offenders, and fewer programs are offered for the rehabilitation …show more content…
Appropriate health care programs, opportunities, and rehabilitation programs shall be part of the correctional system in wome
INCARCERATION OF WOMEN 3 to male prisoners. For the lack of attention to the different and complex health needs of female prisoners, many of them do not have health lifestyle, and mostly all prisoners do not have an idea of their health status and are being less aware than most people of healthy lifestyles. This is because most of the female population is made up of minorities from disadvantaged backgrounds, who prior their admission to prison did not have a health care lifestyle (Van den
Bergh et al., 2011). So, this is situations are a great contribution to the worsening the physical health of women in prison. The prison management also ignores the warning that women have more and specific physical health needs than their counterparts; needs that must be treated to prevent disease risk. “The most prominent health issues for women related to reproductive health such as menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and breastfeeding” (Van den Bergh et al., 2011).
Unfortunately, physical care is not the only issue that female prisoners faced. …show more content…
Drug abuse is also playing an important role to the main issue of health care before and after the admission to prison. The lived traumas during childhood sometimes are so strong that many times these women refuges in the wrong solutions to forget the bad memories that marked their lives. Many of these female offenders suffer dependency on substances such as alcohol and drugs; although, prostitution and sex work are also a scape for victims of sexual abused (Van den
Bergh et al., 2011). It is evident that women's needs are notable different than male prisoners; women showed a higher prevalence of general therapeutic and psychiatric conditions along with extreme drug dependence compared to men (Colbert, Sekula, Zoucha, & Cohen, 2013). All these untreated health care problems severely impact the life of those women. "Most of them exposed their lives to the risk of contracting HIV and other blood- borne viruses. Women are a greater risk of entering prison with sexually transmitted infections as a result of past high risk of sexual behaviors" (Van den Bergh et al., 2011, pg. 690) which end up with health problems impossible to be treat inside prison due to the limitation of resources. Davis & PAcchiana (2004),
Although, in the last past decades, the numbers of female prisoners had increased at worldwide level, women still make a minority population compared to male prisoners. Female offenders were segregated with the purpose to give them the same treatment and provide similar programs as male offenders; unfortunately, in many cases female offenders are treated worse than male prisoners and less programs and opportunities are offered inside the facilities. They receive less attention than their counterparts, and many of those female prisons faced overcrowding because few prisons were built for female offenders, and fewer programs are offered for the rehabilitation …show more content…
Appropriate health care programs, opportunities, and rehabilitation programs shall be part of the correctional system in wome
INCARCERATION OF WOMEN 3 to male prisoners. For the lack of attention to the different and complex health needs of female prisoners, many of them do not have health lifestyle, and mostly all prisoners do not have an idea of their health status and are being less aware than most people of healthy lifestyles. This is because most of the female population is made up of minorities from disadvantaged backgrounds, who prior their admission to prison did not have a health care lifestyle (Van den
Bergh et al., 2011). So, this is situations are a great contribution to the worsening the physical health of women in prison. The prison management also ignores the warning that women have more and specific physical health needs than their counterparts; needs that must be treated to prevent disease risk. “The most prominent health issues for women related to reproductive health such as menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and breastfeeding” (Van den Bergh et al., 2011).
Unfortunately, physical care is not the only issue that female prisoners faced. …show more content…
Drug abuse is also playing an important role to the main issue of health care before and after the admission to prison. The lived traumas during childhood sometimes are so strong that many times these women refuges in the wrong solutions to forget the bad memories that marked their lives. Many of these female offenders suffer dependency on substances such as alcohol and drugs; although, prostitution and sex work are also a scape for victims of sexual abused (Van den
Bergh et al., 2011). It is evident that women's needs are notable different than male prisoners; women showed a higher prevalence of general therapeutic and psychiatric conditions along with extreme drug dependence compared to men (Colbert, Sekula, Zoucha, & Cohen, 2013). All these untreated health care problems severely impact the life of those women. "Most of them exposed their lives to the risk of contracting HIV and other blood- borne viruses. Women are a greater risk of entering prison with sexually transmitted infections as a result of past high risk of sexual behaviors" (Van den Bergh et al., 2011, pg. 690) which end up with health problems impossible to be treat inside prison due to the limitation of resources. Davis & PAcchiana (2004),