Exam 8: The Prison Experience Females

Race tends to be emphasized much more in female prison culture than male prison culture.

While males may benefit from sentencing reforms, females:

Female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to cope with their issues:

Discuss the findings of the three classic studies of women in prison.

Almost half of the women in prison today under mandatory sentencing laws have been convicted of:

Special issues in the incarceration of women include motherhood and ____________________.

Many women have been victims of ____________________ by correctional officers  during incarceration .

____________________ are a type of prison socialization in which women deal with incarceration by becoming part of make-believe families.

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium-security male prison. During her first week of work, she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison. Warden Jones has been observing how some women cope with prison. She is most concerned with the inmate who adopts the ___________ style because they are highly likely to have difficulty dealing with correctional officers.

There is a lack of qualified personnel and resources to meet the physical and mental health needs of female inmates.

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant with her second child  when she entered prison. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services. When she first entered prison, Melissa became part of a make-believe family in order to deal with incarceration. This is known as:

A term commonly used referring to the dominant, or male, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is____________________.

Kruttschnitt and Gartner found that prisoners in the two prisons they studied had three major ways of negotiating, or coping with, prison life. Compare and contrast the three perspectives.

Discuss Barbara Owen's study on female inmates and her findings.

Some prisons _______________ inmates for health care even though it is in violation of international standards.

While their mothers are incarcerated, which relative do the children most frequently stay with?

What percentage of states offer female inmates mammograms and Pap smears?

Discuss the issues incarcerated mothers deal with in prison and the types of programs that are offered to help in some institutions to deal with these issues.

Professionalism in a women's prison is defined as:

The incarceration of so many women with a history of drug abuse and prostitution puts them at a high risk for: