Incarceration of women

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This article discusses the incarceration of women in correctional facilities.

Characteristics

As of 2007, in most of the Western world, the guards on female prisons are exclusively female.[1] As of that year there are males who work as guards in women's prisons in the United States.[2]

History

United States

Main article: Incarceration of women in the United States

In the United States, authorities began housing women in correctional facilities separate from men in the 1870s.[3] The first American female correctional facility with dedicated buildings and staff was the Mount Pleasant Female Prison in Ossining, New York; the facility had some operational dependence on nearby Sing Sing, a men's prison.[4]

Great Britain

In Great Britain, a new policy has passed, and women no longer have to be restrained while giving birth when serving their sentence. The British services for human rights quotes, "no one should be subjected to degrading punishment, and the United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners refuse to go to child care events, or funerals because of the humiliation the restraints show. Women in Britain fought for their right to not be restrained while giving birth to their child. However, they must be restrained while being escorted to and from the hospital. More women than men will escape the prison system in Britain. Of those women who escape almost half of them escape while receiving medical attention at a hospital.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Talvi, Silja (2007). Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. Emeryville: Seal Press. pp. 56. 
  2. ↑ Talvi, Silja (2007). Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. Emeryville: Seal Press. pp. 57. 
  3. ↑ Banks, Cyndi. Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2003. p.1. Retrieved from Google Books on March 10, 2011. ISBN 1-57607-929-5, ISBN 978-1-57607-929-4.
  4. ↑ Banks, Cyndi. Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2003. p.5. Retrieved from Google Books on March 10, 2011. ISBN 1-57607-929-5, ISBN 978-1-57607-929-4.

    Antonova, N. (2013, Nov 4th). Reforming Russian Women's Prisons.

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