Context: What’s behind women’s prison growth?

Local prisons play a particularly important role in female imprisonment because the proportion of imprisoned women housed in prisons is far greater than the total imprisoned population. The number of men housed in state prisons is twice that of rural prisons, but imprisoned women are distributed between state prisons and local prisons.

This sex difference is also evident in growth trends. Since the 1970's, most male accommodation has been done in state prisons. For women, however, the local prison population and state prison population continues to grow, exceeding the state prison population growth since 2000. 1 This report is specific to the provincial prison population. Influence the growth of prison

Many women in local prisons pose other serious problems related to the substantial difference between prison and prison. Our previous report on female mass punishment: The whole pie highlights many of these problems. Unlike national prisons, the vast majority (60%) of women in rural prisons are not convicted or detained while waiting for a trial. The possibility of women's bail is lower than that of men: the average annual income of those who can not be relieved is lower than the poverty line, about 30% lower than that of men who can not bail. Even in pre-trial detention for a few days, we may affect lives and change lives for women and their families, and endanger employment and housing.

Women of 38,000 prisons who have been convicted are usually serving less than a year, usually due to cheating. For these women, it may be particularly difficult to keep in touch with family members. Compared to prisons, phone charges in prisons are higher and direct visiting may be prohibited. Prisons often offer services and opportunities to participate in less rehabilitation programs than in prisons. Finally - or perhaps due to these differences - prison women have a higher incidence of mental health problems than men, one in three women complaining of serious mental distress in jail

As we all know, prison gives women a more serious psychological impact. The fact that the number of female prisons is small means that women are often far from families. Compared with male prisoners, female prisoners are most likely to be totally responsible for caring for their children and maintaining their families, many women lose their homes by imprisonment and some women lose their custody I may lose. 1 Two thirds of women in prison suffer from psychiatric illness and are not forced to give due consideration that a record number of people are forced to commit suicide or self-injury2. The same can be said about the number of prisoners who have mental health problems. Some of these problems, such as anxiety and depression, are relatively mild, and in some cases these problems become more serious and intervention by psychiatrists and other members of the Prison mental health team is required .

Women • The proportion of colored women in female prisons is too high. • Women in custody are confronted with various unique problems, many of which can not enter jail. In some institutions, we have a prison nursery school program where mothers can lay babies. In some presentations we understand how female criminal prisons and programs can cope with gender issues, and women We will take into account the specific needs. I discussed the problems faced by women and ways in which drug war brought women great unintended consequences. Here, six key principles to consider when developing gender sensitive programs are emphasized. Gender, environment, human relations, service and supervision, socioeconomic status and community.