Prison Journal articles from June 1995

Prison Journal archives from June 1995

Feminine fortresses: woman-centered prisons?(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... Like all habitual patterns of social action, the structures of modern punishment have created a sense of their own inevitability and of the necessary rightness of the status quo. Our taken-for-granted ways of punishing have relieved us of the...

Profiling women prisoners: findings from national surveys and a California sample.(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... Whereas past efforts have described the contours of the female prison population (Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS], 1989; Chesney-Lind & Rodriquez, 1983; Goetting & Howsen, 1983), the rapid changes in the population (DeConstanzo & Scholes,...

Inmate needs and programming in exclusively women's jails.(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... Women in jail account for almost 10% of the nation's jail inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1991). Perhaps because of their relatively small numbers, little is known about women inmates generally and about women in jail particularly...

Gender issues in the new generation jail.(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... This study grew out of a larger inquiry into the implications of an innovative form of jail architecture and jail management for inmates and staff known as "podular direct" or "new generation" (Jackson, 1992). In analyzing the data, our...

Child custody issues of women prisoners: a preliminary report from the CHICAS project. (Child Custody Advocacy Services)(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... There are more than 80,000 jailed and imprisoned mothers in the United States; these women have at least 150,000 dependent children or an average of 2.4 children each (Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, 1993). The issue of child...

Assessment of and services for substance-abusing women offenders in community and correctional settings.(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... Drug abuse among women has become a significant problem for the criminal justice system. The majority of women arrestees are arrested for drug offenses and crimes committed to support their drug habits, in particular theft and prostitution....

A prison superintendent's perspective on women in prison.(Special Issue: Women in Prisons and Jails)
June 1, 1995... Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is New York State's maximum-security prison for women. Many of the women housed within its electronically secure fences are long termers, having 6 or more years to serve on their minimum sentences before they...