Breaking Women is an ethnography piece by Jill McCorkel that speaks of how prisons changes over time given the War on Drugs movement, but she just doesn’t talk about men prisons. She talks about women prisons. She also mentions how race and gender affect the encounters women have in prison. The book starts off with McCorkel talking of how prisons use to be.…
Before the Age of Reform, and Dorothea Dix, mentally ill were placed in prisons with other convicts. Because of their differences they were neglected, abused, and even tortured. Thankfully due to Dix’s efforts the mentally ill were removed from the prisons and placed into their own separate state hospitals. Much like the mentally ill, there was a time when women prisoners were forced to endure prison like with both male inmates and male guards. This caused women prisoners to be subject to an ultimate amount of violence and sexual assault, until they were finally removed and put into their own prison with other male…
With many women in prison not being aware of the rules and regulations and not knowing how to reconnect with their children, feeds the issue of foster homes being overpopulated. This is so because often times these women are notified after it is too late that they no longer have custody of their children, losing any connection they may have with their children. The amount of time it takes just for these mothers to become aware of any information involving their children torture. Mothers who are incarcerated need to be able to have more options than what they do now in order to reconnect with their…
Cornerstone Ministries is a church in Export, PA. It has over 4,000 attendees spanned over 3 weekend services and a Wednesday night service. They’ve decided to take church to a completely new level with many unique features that may just be found only at this church. One of these features is something called small groups. Small groups span from kindergarten to 12th grade, and are separated by gender (there are also small groups for adults and they are not separated by genders).…
Oklahoma has the highest female incarceration rate in the United States. In fact, Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate is over twice the national average. These women overwhelmingly come from families and lives with a history of drug problems, alcohol problems, mental illness, poverty, divorce, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. A large majority of these women are mothers as well. Generally, the children of these mothers are negatively affected by their mothers’ imprisonment (Sharp, et al.…
Under the U.S. Constitution, individuals who are sent to prisons are entitled to certain rights and liberties. Incarcerated individuals are guaranteed the rights to sustain a reasonable way of life. Some of the familiar rights afford to these incarcerated individuals include free from cruel and unusual punishments, access to the court, voices complaint about prison conditions, practice of free speech, press, and religion, free from discrimination and sexual harassment. Even though not stated explicitly incarcerated individuals have the right to receive medical care and mental health treatment guaranteed under the Eight Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court determined “it is but just [righteous] that the public be required to care for the prisoner,…
(2017). Nursing Behind Bars: The Differences Between Jail and Prison. Journal Of Legal Nurse Consulting, 28(1), 22-25. Schmalleger, F., & Smykla, J. O. (2015). Corrections in the 21st century (7th ed.).…
The Women Wellness Program was established to stop repeating female offenders from returning to jail for committing additional criminal acts. This program is tough despite its name, it is intended to help repeated offenders turn their lives around. The program’s support help gives female offenders hope, without the program most of the women would not break their cycles of criminal behavior or addictions. The wellness program consists of counseling sessions, which last for one month. The women meet with the counselor, twice a day, five times, during the course of a week.…
Purpose: Women confined to jail experience high rates of various health and social issues. This study surveys the effects of previous social and health characteristics and the types of services received in community aftercare for approximately 193 women who were previous drug users released from a jail in New York City into two low income communities. For the results of the rearrest rates of the program, the participants were compared to a group of women who were not qualified for services because they lived outside the targeted communities. Women who joined in residential programs with an onsite drug treatment as well as other offered social services, after being released from jail, were compared to women who were release, however, joined…
This is a state of being confined. An abnormal retention or imprisoned. This is one of the methods the government uses to punish people for an offense been committed, or sometimes offense not been committed. So many people from the community are in prison out of injustice. The high growth of incarceration rates in the United States for more than four decades has spawned commentary and an increasing body of scientific understanding; in regards to its cause and the after effects for those imprisoned, their families and the communities at large.…
The addition of community input would help bring in resources and support surely needed by convicts. Consisting in the article Offender Reentry: What it Means to the Law Enforcement Community (2008), by Leonard Sipes, is emphasis on the support that neighboring community facilities have for the District of Columbia’s reentry program. This program is called Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), and it is supported by local faith-based facilities. Support by these facilities is solely based on the promised safety being provided by the success of the program. The facilities provide probationer’s drug rehab, clothing, housing, and health benefits.…
Historically, female offenders were imprisoned in a different building within a male prison. Women had to deal with sexual abuse, physical abuse, lack of services, and inadequate privacy. Prison guards were usually male because the characteristics of a prison guard were to mean and strong something society thought women lacked. Male guards had little understanding of female offenders and therefore led to brutal punishment. In 1873, the first all-female prison in the Unites States opened up and was identified as the Indiana Women’s Prison.…
These prisons can provide women what the outside world, ran by dominant white society, denies them of or makes extremely difficult to attain. This includes employment opportunities, food security, and shelter, all obtainable “without a welfare or Medicaid card” (268). Because many incarcerated women are low income, single mothers, prison allows them to escape these heavily pressured and scrutinized roles. Prisons can provide low paying jobs that allows women to support solely themselves, rather than for others, like their children, partner, or other family members as they normally would outside of prison (Women Behind Bars). However, outside these walls, women will also face gendered and racialized low pay wages, while most jobs also refuse to hire convicted felons.…
Absence of family intervention is a major drawback of the New Zealand Correction Department. More than 10000 prisoners’ parole or discharge from prisons or community sentence each year. Many of them are returned to their families. Those family members need to provide emotional and critical supports including food and shelter. Family support can help prevention of re-offending.…
Tristan Ybarra Mrs. Mora Eng 1A Pro Paper 21 October 2014 Prisoners and Their Health Care It has been said that effectively treating inmates with physical and mental illnesses, including substance abuse disorders, improves their well being and can reduce likelihood that they will commit new crimes or violate probation once they are released (Majer, Schluete, Wicklond 27). They believed that providing health care for inmates would help them to a better mindset and over all health, even if they were in facilities for mental illnesses or narcotic abuse. In other words, it is like giving them a second chance to prove themselves as decent human beings while being on parole. Should state prisons pay for prisoner health care?…