What Are The Difficulties Women Face Behind Bars
Difficulties women face behind bars
Perry B Keaton
Women Crime and Criminal Justice - 2
Instructor: Fabrienne McDowell
September 5, 2015
Difficulties women face behind bars -1
In today society women are gaining ground with their fellow men when it comes to them being incarcerated. So that brings me to the first question of this week individual assignment. What major differences do you find in the treatment of men versus women while incarcerated? When it comes to men and women in prison there is a difference between the two in the way they react.
For instance for men in the prison system they tend to externalize stress, which in prison produces more physical aggression and combative behavior. But on the other hand women react to the same situation differently by engage in self-harming behavior such …show more content…
as cutting, carving and burning; women have more frequent suicide attempts and use medical and mental health services at more than twice the rate of male inmates.
Another major difference that women are face with that their male counterpart isn’t will be Women in correctional institutions are not provided comparable services, educational programs, or facilities as men prisoners.
Looking at female incarceration both historically and today, what changes in treatment do you find? There have been some dramatic changes over the year for women in the system. Let’s take a good at them. For instance equally dramatic changes have taken place for women. In 1970 there were slightly more than 5,600 women in state and federal prisons across the United States. By 1996 there were nearly 75,000--a thirteen fold increase. For most of the period the female incarceration rate hovered at around 8 per 100,000; it did not reach double digits until 1977. Today it is 51 per 100,000.
If local jail populations are also considered, the incarceration rate in 1997 was 652. By the end of 1998, more than 1.3 million prisoners were under Federal or State jurisdiction, and more than 1.8 million were in jail or prison.
Another alarming fact to consider is When both prison and jail populations are calculated, the rates for African-Americans in 1996 were 6,607 and 474 (per 100,000 U.S. adult residents) for males and females, respectively; for whites the rates were 944 for males and 73 for females.
But looking at today rates nearly a third of all female prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the United States, more than 250,000 women prisoners in the US, or about 9.0 percent of the total American prison population, and that the US female prison population appears to be growing.
. Over 200,000 women are behind bars, most of them women of color. Hispanic women are incarcerated nearly twice the rate of white women, and black women are incarcerated at four times the rate of white women.
After reading and researching I came upon a very good interesting fact that I did not realize. And I discover the very first American women prison was built in Ossining, New York.
Is there still a gap between men's and women's treatment while incarcerated? Why or why not? The answer to the question is yes. Women in prison are still not receiving the same equitable rights as their male counterpart. For instance Women in correctional institutions are not provided comparable services, educational programs, or facilities as men prisoners. Inequities are most prevalent in State institutions, but they also exist in Federal and local correctional
systems.
Perry B Keaton
Women Crime and Criminal Justice - 2
Instructor: Fabrienne McDowell
September 5, 2015
Difficulties women face behind bars -1
In today society women are gaining ground with their fellow men when it comes to them being incarcerated. So that brings me to the first question of this week individual assignment. What major differences do you find in the treatment of men versus women while incarcerated? When it comes to men and women in prison there is a difference between the two in the way they react.
For instance for men in the prison system they tend to externalize stress, which in prison produces more physical aggression and combative behavior. But on the other hand women react to the same situation differently by engage in self-harming behavior such …show more content…
as cutting, carving and burning; women have more frequent suicide attempts and use medical and mental health services at more than twice the rate of male inmates.
Another major difference that women are face with that their male counterpart isn’t will be Women in correctional institutions are not provided comparable services, educational programs, or facilities as men prisoners.
Looking at female incarceration both historically and today, what changes in treatment do you find? There have been some dramatic changes over the year for women in the system. Let’s take a good at them. For instance equally dramatic changes have taken place for women. In 1970 there were slightly more than 5,600 women in state and federal prisons across the United States. By 1996 there were nearly 75,000--a thirteen fold increase. For most of the period the female incarceration rate hovered at around 8 per 100,000; it did not reach double digits until 1977. Today it is 51 per 100,000.
If local jail populations are also considered, the incarceration rate in 1997 was 652. By the end of 1998, more than 1.3 million prisoners were under Federal or State jurisdiction, and more than 1.8 million were in jail or prison.
Another alarming fact to consider is When both prison and jail populations are calculated, the rates for African-Americans in 1996 were 6,607 and 474 (per 100,000 U.S. adult residents) for males and females, respectively; for whites the rates were 944 for males and 73 for females.
But looking at today rates nearly a third of all female prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the United States, more than 250,000 women prisoners in the US, or about 9.0 percent of the total American prison population, and that the US female prison population appears to be growing.
. Over 200,000 women are behind bars, most of them women of color. Hispanic women are incarcerated nearly twice the rate of white women, and black women are incarcerated at four times the rate of white women.
After reading and researching I came upon a very good interesting fact that I did not realize. And I discover the very first American women prison was built in Ossining, New York.
Is there still a gap between men's and women's treatment while incarcerated? Why or why not? The answer to the question is yes. Women in prison are still not receiving the same equitable rights as their male counterpart. For instance Women in correctional institutions are not provided comparable services, educational programs, or facilities as men prisoners. Inequities are most prevalent in State institutions, but they also exist in Federal and local correctional
systems.