Women in prison: Deprivations of prison life

Sex life in prison.

Women in Prison

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...

Women In Prison: A Review of the Current Female Prison System: Future Directions and Alternatives

A review of relevant literature has indicated that women are sentenced inconsistently by the criminal justice system showing differences between harsh, equal or lenient treatment. This dissertation highlights that sending women to prison, who tend not commit serious crime and drawing a prison population who have the characteristics of economic and social deprivation, is completely unnecessary. ...

Measuring the quality of prison life

The aim of this research was to explore whether it is possible to develop well grounded survey measures of prison life and quality, which can provide an additional operationally useful measure to those already in place (such as Key Performance Indicators and Standards Audits). The research found that it is possible to measure complex aspects of prison quality, such as relationships, respect, sa...