NCJ Number
147510
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Dated: (April 1994) Pages: 197- 221
Date Published
1994
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This article examines programs for female inmates in the United States in the 1980's, a decade marked by an increased number of incarcerated women and by court pressure to correct biases in programming.
Abstract
Data from a census of facilities and a sample of inmates revealed that regardless of gender, the prison experience does little to overcome marginalization from the workforce and did not provide programming for many persons with a history of drug abuse or who are parents. Moreover, gender stereotypes influence the nature of the work and vocational training, and women disproportionately receive psychotropic drugs for mental health treatment. The logistic regression analyses revealed differences related not only to gender but also to region and ethnic or racial group. Tables, notes, and 32 references (Author abstract modified)