Week 2: women, crime and CJS: Why Gender Matters

Question 1

Prison for Women

Description

Answer 1

a prison made just for women, women were transferred over to the new prison

Question 2

Prison for Women

Closing

Answer 2

were not enough prisoners, room for 100 but highest resided was 51 inmates

Question 3

Prison for Women

April 22nd Incident

Answer 3

• women were getting medication
• 6 inmated jumped officers
• placed in segegration unit, some of them pleaded guilty to the charges
• most officers needed to laeve P4W due to the incident
• women that were in segregation unit continued to act out and the Male Institutional Emergency Response Yeam came to handle it
• they were stripped, gowned and cells stripped
• all recorded by a member of the male unit
• women only wore paper gowns for a few days, no mattresses, couldn’t shower. no phone calls, no reading and no writing
• happened for 7-9 months

Question 4

Prison for Women

Closing

Answer 4

women were transferred to regional facilities

Question 5

Creating Choices (1990)
Principles

Answer 5

1. develop women self-esteem through empowerment
2. offer women meaningful choices when it comes to participation in programs while inside prison or community
3. cultivate women’s self-respect and dignity. including respect for others
4. foster supportive and nurturing environment
5. build shared sense of responsibility between inmates, staff and community

Question 6

Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women (TSSFW) (1989)

Answer 6

• focused on women’s live and standpoints
• women framed as experts in their own lives
• male-centered to women-centered correctional model
• recommended 5 regional facilities & 1 healing lodge to replace centralized federal facility