Add to ORKGThe United States has incarcerated more of its citizens than any other progressive nation worldwide. The female population of prisoners has dramatically risen over the past thirty years. Structural violence, childhood trauma, socioeconomic factors, education, and healthcare are all reasons for the rise in numbers of female inmates. I conducted an ethnographic study, collecting life histories of three women who have recently been released from Dallas County Jail. These women have also participated in a program provided through the jail called Resolana. I examine the circumstances that place these women in each major life situation and analyze how change can be made through gender specific programming
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the app...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourses circulating in educational settings in a...
The rate of female incarceration continues to surge, resulting in over 714,000 women currently being...
The United States has incarcerated more of its citizens than any other progressive nation worldwide....
From 1972 to 2002, women in the United States were incarcerated at higher rates than any other perio...
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written abou...
This article will explore the growth in the incarceration of women over the past three decades. Rece...
With the rate of women’s incarceration significantly outpacing that of men’s, combined with the fact...
Since the 1980s, the population of incarcerated women has been steadily increasing. Approximately 20...
The goal of our senior project is to study using an intersectional lens how race, class, gender, and...
The number of women who are incarcerated has increased significantly in the past few decades. Origin...
There has been a significant increase in the nation\u27s female incarceration rate. During 2006, the...
Female incarceration rates are increasing at unprecedented rates. The majority of women are poor sin...
This research will evaluate the impact of sexual abuse and violence on incarcerated women and its ov...
This paper investigates how the contemporary U.S. penal system impacts women given that female impri...
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the app...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourses circulating in educational settings in a...
The rate of female incarceration continues to surge, resulting in over 714,000 women currently being...
The United States has incarcerated more of its citizens than any other progressive nation worldwide....
From 1972 to 2002, women in the United States were incarcerated at higher rates than any other perio...
In Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison, Professor Paula Johnson has written abou...
This article will explore the growth in the incarceration of women over the past three decades. Rece...
With the rate of women’s incarceration significantly outpacing that of men’s, combined with the fact...
Since the 1980s, the population of incarcerated women has been steadily increasing. Approximately 20...
The goal of our senior project is to study using an intersectional lens how race, class, gender, and...
The number of women who are incarcerated has increased significantly in the past few decades. Origin...
There has been a significant increase in the nation\u27s female incarceration rate. During 2006, the...
Female incarceration rates are increasing at unprecedented rates. The majority of women are poor sin...
This research will evaluate the impact of sexual abuse and violence on incarcerated women and its ov...
This paper investigates how the contemporary U.S. penal system impacts women given that female impri...
Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the app...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourses circulating in educational settings in a...
The rate of female incarceration continues to surge, resulting in over 714,000 women currently being...