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Women are known as the forgotten offender. Within the educational and vocational programs there is definitely a lack between male programs and programs for female offenders. Women typically have traditional educational and vocational programs such as classes on home economics and parenting classes versus men who have programs that lead to skills that can be related to jobs. Another forgotten thing is mini correctional facilities policies do not understand the importance of the bond between mother and child. For this there is a fear that most women who give birth in jail believe that the long separation period the mother and the child may not be able to reconnect with each other. Another problem is with the economic cost and travel distance …show more content…

Inmate on inmate victimize Asian is much higher among females than that of their male counterparts. Most correctional facilities do not consider female on female assault a true act of rape, which could be one of the possible reasons why they are not reprimanded and this type of assault on our children and mothers in our local jails is on a rise. One of the worst types of sexual salt is by a male or female correctional officer typically male whose job is to keep order in peace inside the jail. In officer who performs this abuse of power and violates the victims eighth amendment of being free from cool and unusual punishment often forces the inmate to be victimized by threats from the officer to prevent visitation from children, and family, or if close to parole report a false behavior report to the board so they will be denied the parole. In order for the victimized inmate to report the attack they must report it to either the individual officer that initiated the attack or their colleagues and are at a greater risk of being honest and having basic necessities taken away for reporting on an officer. Being able to prove that the officer attacked the inmate proves to be a very difficult task as the inmate is not as

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The main point of this article is to show that many prisoners get beaten by officers everyday some may have a reason but others are just because they want to and they do it because they have the power and inmates don’t. One case that sticks the most out is when officers came out yelling towards the inmates and started beating on them and he said and I quote “They came running inside yelling and

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Angela Davis demonstrates the ongoing violent abuse as she quotes a report on sexual maltreatment in women’s prisons, “We found that male correctional employees have vaginally, anally, and orally raped female prisoners and sexually assaulted and abused them” (Davis 78). However disturbing this blunt sexual contact that male officers take with the vulnerable prisoners may be, the officers adopt even more severe tactics to harass and abuse the women as they often utilize “mandatory pat-frisks or room searches to grope women 's breasts, buttocks, and vaginal areas...” (Davis 79). To add insult to injury, women are virtually incapable of escaping from their abuser(s). Prison employees upkeep their inappropriate behavior as it is believed they will “rarely be held accountable, administratively or criminally” (Davis 78).

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I. Gender Disparity Guidelines and Data In the context of gender disparity in criminal sentencing, some may think that having said that criminal courts are more lenient on women is just one’s opinion. In fact, a lot of researches and data suggest that there is a strong different in gender in the sentencing outcomes. Men are sentenced to longer prison terms than women. Men are 42% more likely to be sentenced to prison.

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Women who have been in prison might have suffered from mental illness or harassment in prison. Feminism abolition looks to give these women new opportunities and start from scratch. The article Structural racism and the impact on incarcerated midlife women mentions the following, “Women are the fastest growing prison population and most incarcerated women are from Black and Latinx groups” (“Structural racism and the impact on incarcerated midlife women - Women's Midlife Health”). Many women have been impersonated by racial profiling. These women from Black and Latino communities are the most incarcerated in the United States.

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And females at only eighteen percent. In 2009 men comprised of a smaller percentage of the total inmates than in 1990 when there was a slight increase within the total correctional population. In 2009 the percentage of women who had been convicted and were only being supervised was Eighty-five percent. Men had Sixty-six percent of convicted offenders on either probation or parole. The incarceration rate, according to statistics was 1,352 per 100,000 for males and 126 per 100,000 for females.

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I think men working in these facilities will also be better for the women to get different type of attention. Even though there is a few pros for men working in women correctional facilities there are also cons. There are more cons then pros. One big con is there are a lot of sexual relationships happening between the guards and the prisoners. Also many prisoners are being raped by the guards and sexually harassed.

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The stories of the ladies in Maryland only women prison allowed me to see the reality of what women are truly facing and dealing with. These women have been fighting with their self for so long to come and find them self-having to face time behind bar. Trying to figure out how they’re going to find some type of peace and comfortable with in such a small cans cold area with no one to help through the emotions that there feeling. They are the example of what people are saying about women being incarcerated, they are dealing with anger build up from the past and some binding behind the fact and being deceitful about the reason they are really there. Over the events of days seeing what these ladies are through mentally and physically is displeasing

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With the rise of the feminist movement in the West in 18th century, women prisoners become the social group which is paid increasing attention to. Since the past decades, the women imprisonment has becoming one of the most pressing issues on the penal system. Because of the explosion of women prisoners’ population, the prisons have been gendered and the amount of women’s prisons has experienced a sharp increase. In October 2006, the amount of women prisons reached at 4,447 and have been risen more quickly than man prisons, almost trebling in 1993 (Canadino and Dignan, 2007:355). Besides, the penal system is the largest part of the criminal justice system; it refers to office treatments to those who have been sentenced by a court according to

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Women may receive more assistant and help post prison compared to men since women typically are not as psychologically as stable compared to men. Men should also be offered this same options as the women are instead of being stereotyped into one category as everyone being the same as one another. People believe that more women are offered more assistance after being released from jail compared to men because men typically want to play the “tough man” role to prove that they do not need any help compared to women once being released from jail. Another factor to as why women receive more options compared to men is that women are usually more targeted by those who they may have gotten to know in jail or even prior to being in jail and also tend to be a victim rather than being a recurring

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