“Assessing the Racial Climate in Women’s Institutions in the Context of Penal Reform” (2003) by Kristin Carbone-Lopez and Candace Kruttschnitt attempts to examine women’s perceptions of racial hostility in prison. The female prison population has exploded over the course of last 30 years. Our current knowledge of how women respond to imprisonment is sorely outdated. The dynamic of race relations has always played a key role in the social interactions in prison.
While experts cannot agree on exactly how the penological landscape has changed over the past decade, they do agree on the occurrence of a new penal era. Little has been written about how the new penal era will affect women, although research is growing in the United Kingdom and Canada. A recent study of three women’s prisons in England concluded that age and region of origin play more significant roles in forming friendships than race. On the other hand, a study done in Canada determined that racism “endemic to Canadian society” affects Aboriginal women in its prisons.
In the U.S., an obsolete study from 1983 suggested that inmates’ perceptions of the prison environment were influenced by both experiences inside and outside of prison. Yet another study of inmate life referenced by Carbone-Lopez and Kruttschnitt …show more content…
CIW has retained many aspects of its rehabilitative start, and looks like more of a hospital than a prison. On the contrary, there is no question that VSP resembles a prison with its electrified fences, armed guards, and stadium lights. Although different in many ways, both of these prisons operate under the same California Code of Regulations. Data collected from interviews resulted in a fairly representative sample of the inmate populations from which they were taken. The interview data was used to form the basis of the
While experts cannot agree on exactly how the penological landscape has changed over the past decade, they do agree on the occurrence of a new penal era. Little has been written about how the new penal era will affect women, although research is growing in the United Kingdom and Canada. A recent study of three women’s prisons in England concluded that age and region of origin play more significant roles in forming friendships than race. On the other hand, a study done in Canada determined that racism “endemic to Canadian society” affects Aboriginal women in its prisons.
In the U.S., an obsolete study from 1983 suggested that inmates’ perceptions of the prison environment were influenced by both experiences inside and outside of prison. Yet another study of inmate life referenced by Carbone-Lopez and Kruttschnitt …show more content…
CIW has retained many aspects of its rehabilitative start, and looks like more of a hospital than a prison. On the contrary, there is no question that VSP resembles a prison with its electrified fences, armed guards, and stadium lights. Although different in many ways, both of these prisons operate under the same California Code of Regulations. Data collected from interviews resulted in a fairly representative sample of the inmate populations from which they were taken. The interview data was used to form the basis of the