NCJ Number
187936
Date Published
2000
Length
440 pages
Annotation
This report presents papers from an Australian conference on "Women in Corrections: Staff and Clients," held October 31 - November 1, 2000, in Adelaide; the aims of the conference were to discuss, examine, and compare the roles and needs of women in the corrections environment, both as staff and as clients.
Abstract
Some of the papers consider examples of national and international "best practice" in the management of female inmates and offenders, issues for correctional administrators, women as managers and supervisors, the needs of female correctional staff, contributions from female correctional staff, correctional officer training and development, issues for other professional staff, and staff-inmate relationships. Papers pertinent to the needs of inmates focus on relationships with family, children, and other supports; parenting programs; classification and case management of female inmates; prerelease and postrelease programs; medical services and health care issues; vocational education and training; indigenous women; and dealing with abused inmates. Other themes of the conference addressed drug and alcohol programs, alternatives to imprisonment, sentencing options, restorative justice, incarceration trends for women, offending patterns for women, prison population demographics, female deaths in custody, and self-harm among female inmates. References and appropriate data accompany the papers.