1. Group #2, Angel, Bria, Mike, Shakira, Yashaira
Women Imprisoned
Group #2, Angel, Bria, Mike, Shakira, Yashaira

2. Female Institutions
Are strictly Penal ( steel bars, concrete floors ext.)
Majority are none secure and similar to college dormitories and group homes.
Woman suffer from lack of adequate training
Lack of health and treatment
Lack of educational facilities.
Little effort made to help with developing better parenting skills.
Job-training opportunities are also a problem.

3. Exhibit 12.1

4. Female Inmates
Unlike male inmates female inmates are younger (most are under 30)
Minority group members
Unmarried
Undereducated
Underemployed / Unemployed
Poor, unskilled woman of color who have small children
Have health problems
History of abuse
Incarcerated for low-level drug or property offenses.

5. Female Inmates #2 Women report of having substance abuse problems
Three-fourth of women have used drug at some time in their lives.
Because of prior history of drug abuse there is a higher risk of exposure to HIV
Reports or trading sex for money or drugs (weekly of more often)

7. Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons
Female prisoners being sexually abused and exploited by male correctional workers
Use of brute force, coercion to gain sexual control
Lewd remarks , voyeurism, Assault and rape
Perpetrator rarely go to trial
Workers cover for each other
Few of the women act with what is called “Adolescent behavior”

8. Adapting to Female Institution
Forced to undergo a prison socialization fraught with danger and volatile situations
Female inmates are more likely to mutilate their own bodies and to attempt suicide
Make-believe family ( substitute family group – faux father, Mother, and siblings)
Inmates may play multiple roles