With prison populations soaring, the Prison Reform Trust is working diligently within the UK penal system to help humanize prison conditions and to help reduce unnecessary imprisonment for non-violent offenders. The Prison Reform Trust was founded in 1981 by a group of distinguished UK citizens that included a retired High Court judge whose main objectives
On September 28th, 2012, Governor Jerry Brown of California has finally signed AB 2530, which is a bill that bans shackling of pregnant women in California’s state prisons, juvenile detention facilities and county jails. For years, pregnant women who are incarcerated, have had to wear chains around their pregnant bellies while appearing in court, shackles
Please take a moment to read these sobering facts about women in the criminal justice system: (Women’s Prison Association, 2009) These are some pretty serious and heavy numbers and women in prison are very often an overlooked part of the prison population. And a group of filmmakers have decided to try and make these women’s
One may not think that reading a Shakespeare monologue while being incarcerated in prison could eventually lead to obtaining a higher education degree. However, with the Women’s Prison Shakespeare Program, located within the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Complex in Michigan state, women have achieved these dreams. Reading Shakespeare helps these women build real-world skills, such
Many inmates that are incarcerated have limited educational exposure. In fact the illiteracy rate among incarcerated prisoners is staggeringly high. At the Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) located in Chowchilla, Ca Literacy Coordinator Ms. Cindy Greer meets with two dozen inmates to assign work projects. These assigned projects are for literacy tutors. The tutors,
Did you know that California has the largest prison system in the nation? There are over 46 adult prison/correctional facilities that incarcerate almost 200,000 men and women – and this leaves nearly 200,000 children without one or more parents. Those are shocking numbers! Children of incarcerated parents are often left in either foster homes or
Within the California Institution for Women, a women’s correctional facility located in Corona, California, a student-run nonprofit organization called Cultivating Dreams helps incarcerated women tend to an organic garden. This dynamic program is a collaborative effort of volunteers from the Claremont College community, and both students and women inside the prison work together to manage
Domestic violence is rampant in the United States. Thousands of women are incarcerated, often for life, for killing a partner that threatened their lives or the lives of their children. And today, these women are trapped behind bars because the only way to protect themselves was by killing their abusers. A California state prison study
More and more women are being incarcerated in U.S. prison systems. The numbers are staggering! And many of these women are in prison for non-violent crimes, self-defense, or for defending their children from abusive spouses. Most women that are incarcerated are mothers whose children are being cared for by either family members or state housing/foster
Women prisoners face special challenges while incarcerated. Eighty percent of women prisoners are doing time for non-violent crimes such as shoplifting, prostitution, drug-related convictions, and fraud. Many women prisoners convicted of violent crimes were defending themselves or their children from domestic violent abuse. Nearly two-thirds of women in prison have at least one child under
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