Silenced Voices: Women Incarceration

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Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

The Perspective of Alleyway5

Women Prisoners - the Issue of Inequality6

Stripe Searching6

Ruthless Sentences7

Pre-Trial Imprisonment7

Distinctive Attributes Of Women Incarceration8

Contemporary Offense and Previous Record8

Societal Conduct8

Kids and Family Relations9

Health Care Needs9

Drug Abuse10

Sexual Assault10

Educational And Vocational Needs10

Obstacles Face by Women Inmates after Release11

Need of Improvement in Educational and Vocational Programs11

Suggestions: For Escalating the Chances of Women Employment12

Thoughts Related To Women Offenders13

Alternatives for Women Incarceration13

Works Cited15

Silenced Voices: Women Incarceration

Introduction

United States of America is the one who contains the uppermost incarceration rate among all the countries in the globe. Around more than a million women will be found behind the bars or under the authority of criminal justice system (static.nicic.gov). It has been researched that women are the fastest mounting segment of the incarcerated population growing almost double as comparative to the rate of men since 1985. The ratio of women incarcerated comprise of more than one tenth of the entire population of prisoners. This ratio and the sum of women that are incarcerated in federal prisons have been progressively escalating for about the last three decades. Most of the reviewers concerned about that why this growth is escalating on such peak? And how it is affecting over the policies of criminal justice system of United States? The significant aspect extracted from the statistical data proves that drug offences greatly contributed to the enlargement of incarceration rates.

Discussion

According to the statistics of the Bureau of Justice and the American Civil Liberties, following are the most imperative figures that allocate the amplified numbers of women who incarcerated in the prisons of U.S during the last 30 years (www.aclu.org).

The amount of incarcerated women in the federal prisons, state and local jails increased from 12,300 in 1980 to 182,271 recorded in 2002.

During the period of 1986 and 1999, the total number of women incarcerated in the state that were charged with non-drug offences augmented by 129%, despite the fact, the rates of incarceration women charged with drug offences were increased by 888%.

After the period of 1986, there has been recorded a 400 % increase in the overall number of women incarcerated behind bars in both federal prisons and state.

During the years of 1986 and 1996, the increase of women incarcerated in U.S has been recorded about 49%, which was comparatively high to the rising amount of men in prison by 32%, due to drug offences.

In the year of 1999 and onwards, about 72% of the women incarcerated were accounted for drug offences.

If we consider African American women in prison, the ratio has been increased by almost 800% from the year 1986 to onward (Sudbury& Julia, 2005).

African American women present 30% of all females incarcerated under federal or state jurisdiction, and 16% of Hispanic women (The Sentencing project, 2007).

But there is an undeniable fact about their rights, which are often not realized by the regimes of prison that actually intend to predominantly serve male prisoners (www.aclu.org). The impacts of imprisonment on women are very different comparative to men. There are certain key disciplines which are deeply ...