Exam 8: The Prison Experience: Females

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.

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 is amazed to see how many inmates are involved in romantic relationships with one another. She knows that it is impossible to prevent all sexual encounters. However, she is particularly concerned with a few of the female inmates who play the dominant role in the homosexual relationship. Some of them have become violent. The inmates who play this dominant role are referred to as:

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 when she entered prison with her second child. 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:

Pressing issues in women's prisons include:

The female prison population is:

According to the text, the docile, or female, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is called ____________________.

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.

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

A type of prison socialization in which women deal with incarceration by becoming part of make-believe family is a:

Many pregnant inmates are shackled while delivering their child.

Discuss the characteristics of females in prison.

As juveniles, many incarcerated women experienced:

Make- believe families are known as____________________.

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

What is being done to curtail the sexual assault of female prisoners?

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

According to the text, in some prisons the dominant, or male, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is known as:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the prison love affairs that are established in female prisons?

The female prison population is increasing because:

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