Women In Prison Research Paper
WOMEN IN PRISON
I decided to write my essay on the topic of women in prison. I chose to not only write about the way of life of these women after being convicted, but also the very real and serious issue about pregnant convicts. “according to the Women's Prison Association 5,000-10,000 women enter prison already pregnant each year”(Lynch, 2007, para 4) Correctional facilities are an important venue for providing pregnancy-related care, including access to abortion services.. The departmental of justice expressed that 70% of all women who enter prison are mothers already. Society has to consider that we are not only locking away these women but in some cases locking away innocent children as well. …show more content…
More than half the women incarcerated are unemployed. 46% of women prisoners are African American, and 12% are Latina Americans. 85% of mothers had custody of their children before incarceration. Many of these women are involved with drugs. A survey conducted by the National Institute of Justice in 1993 found that the majority of women interviewed tested positive for illicit drugs, regardless of the charges they faced. Most of the women have been medically underinsured before their incarceration.
(Improving Pregnancy Outcome during Imprisonment)
It is said that only a few of U.S. prisons offer an in-house nursery program like the one in the Ohio prison. The convicts must be nonviolent offenders who arrive at the prison pregnant or with small children already. They also must be serving relatively short sentences to qualify. The Achieving Baby Care Success program started in June 2001. The 12 mothers that participated lived in a special wing of the prison. The babies slept in cribs next to their mothers bed. Mothers would take their children to the in-house nursery for scheduled activities. Their ultimate goal, says warden Sheri Duffey, is to keep the next generation out of
I decided to write my essay on the topic of women in prison. I chose to not only write about the way of life of these women after being convicted, but also the very real and serious issue about pregnant convicts. “according to the Women's Prison Association 5,000-10,000 women enter prison already pregnant each year”(Lynch, 2007, para 4) Correctional facilities are an important venue for providing pregnancy-related care, including access to abortion services.. The departmental of justice expressed that 70% of all women who enter prison are mothers already. Society has to consider that we are not only locking away these women but in some cases locking away innocent children as well. …show more content…
More than half the women incarcerated are unemployed. 46% of women prisoners are African American, and 12% are Latina Americans. 85% of mothers had custody of their children before incarceration. Many of these women are involved with drugs. A survey conducted by the National Institute of Justice in 1993 found that the majority of women interviewed tested positive for illicit drugs, regardless of the charges they faced. Most of the women have been medically underinsured before their incarceration.
(Improving Pregnancy Outcome during Imprisonment)
It is said that only a few of U.S. prisons offer an in-house nursery program like the one in the Ohio prison. The convicts must be nonviolent offenders who arrive at the prison pregnant or with small children already. They also must be serving relatively short sentences to qualify. The Achieving Baby Care Success program started in June 2001. The 12 mothers that participated lived in a special wing of the prison. The babies slept in cribs next to their mothers bed. Mothers would take their children to the in-house nursery for scheduled activities. Their ultimate goal, says warden Sheri Duffey, is to keep the next generation out of