Woman Prisons
There is a TV show called, 'Orange Is the New Black', it’s an obscure comedy about life in a women's prison. But in reality, life for women in prison isn’t anything amusing or enjoyable
There are around 4,500 prisons in the United States, but only about 170 of those are women's prisons. Prisons are correctional facilities used for long-term confinement and usually run by the state. People are sent to serve time in prison after they've been convicted of a crime and given a sentence. Women serve their sentences in prisons designed specifically for women, and men serve their sentences in prisons designed for men.
There's little resemblance between men's prisons and women's prisons. The main difference between men's and women's prisons …show more content…
Female inmates are much more likely to only be serving time for drug or property offenses. A study revealed that as many as sixty percent of female convicts have a substance abuse problem, while almost seventy-five percent have some form of psychological complications. The same study showed that the women's crimes were most often a direct result of these problems.
Male inmates, on the other hand, are more likely to be serving time for violent crimes, and thus attract more studies pointed in their direction. A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use force against the victim. These types of crimes are a lot more thought out or relate back to the brain, most likely the reason for more of the studies as well.
Women are the fastest growing division of the prison inhabitants in the country, and the rate of confinement for women has been growing nearly twice as fast as that of men since 1985. Many of the women in today's prisons are there because of romantic or other relationships with male drug dealers, who give their names to officials in exchange for lighter sentencing. In 2000, forty percent of women's criminal convictions leading to imprisonment were related to drug crimes. Also, up to ten percent of female convicts are pregnant, and a sad result of this is hundreds of children are being born in
There is a TV show called, 'Orange Is the New Black', it’s an obscure comedy about life in a women's prison. But in reality, life for women in prison isn’t anything amusing or enjoyable
There are around 4,500 prisons in the United States, but only about 170 of those are women's prisons. Prisons are correctional facilities used for long-term confinement and usually run by the state. People are sent to serve time in prison after they've been convicted of a crime and given a sentence. Women serve their sentences in prisons designed specifically for women, and men serve their sentences in prisons designed for men.
There's little resemblance between men's prisons and women's prisons. The main difference between men's and women's prisons …show more content…
Female inmates are much more likely to only be serving time for drug or property offenses. A study revealed that as many as sixty percent of female convicts have a substance abuse problem, while almost seventy-five percent have some form of psychological complications. The same study showed that the women's crimes were most often a direct result of these problems.
Male inmates, on the other hand, are more likely to be serving time for violent crimes, and thus attract more studies pointed in their direction. A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use force against the victim. These types of crimes are a lot more thought out or relate back to the brain, most likely the reason for more of the studies as well.
Women are the fastest growing division of the prison inhabitants in the country, and the rate of confinement for women has been growing nearly twice as fast as that of men since 1985. Many of the women in today's prisons are there because of romantic or other relationships with male drug dealers, who give their names to officials in exchange for lighter sentencing. In 2000, forty percent of women's criminal convictions leading to imprisonment were related to drug crimes. Also, up to ten percent of female convicts are pregnant, and a sad result of this is hundreds of children are being born in