Add to ORKGThe female prison population has more than doubled since 1995 - with currently around 12.500 women sentenced to custody annually resulting in around 18-20000 children a year being affected by maternal incarceration. Sixty six percent of women sentenced to custody are mothers of children under 18 ( Prison Reform Trust) , and only 5% of children remain in their own home following their mothers sentencing. This article seeks to highlight the issue , referencing Human Rights Guidelines which are currently largely being ignored by the sentencing courts. The article further seeks to introduce proposal for change - which if implemented will significantly reduce the numeber of mothers sentenced to custody
Parental incarceration thwarts the relationships of children with their parents. Nurturing family bo...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
International human rights state that imprisonment for mothers with babies should be used as a last ...
copyrightwith the author and reference to an original article from which this article was adapted. ...
Copyright author reference to original article from which this is developed. Baldwin L. (2015) Rul...
There are, of course, a number of concerns and difficulties associated with the imprisonment of a pa...
Although women represent a small minority of the prison population in all nations, it has long been ...
As the rates of incarceration continue to rise, women are increasingly subject to draconian criminal...
In the past decade, the number of female prisoners in New York state and city jails has risen dramat...
The United States prison population has grown at alarming and unprecedented rates in recent decades,...
Disruption of families through incarceration of parents has become an increasingly serious problem o...
Background: Out of the 11 million detained in prisons globally, the female prison population of 740,...
Copyright Lucy Baldwin article developed from Baldwin . L (2015) Rules of Confinement .Time for C...
While the number of women is increasing among the prison population, so too is the need to accommoda...
This article considers the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) discussion paper released in November 2015.The...
Parental incarceration thwarts the relationships of children with their parents. Nurturing family bo...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
International human rights state that imprisonment for mothers with babies should be used as a last ...
copyrightwith the author and reference to an original article from which this article was adapted. ...
Copyright author reference to original article from which this is developed. Baldwin L. (2015) Rul...
There are, of course, a number of concerns and difficulties associated with the imprisonment of a pa...
Although women represent a small minority of the prison population in all nations, it has long been ...
As the rates of incarceration continue to rise, women are increasingly subject to draconian criminal...
In the past decade, the number of female prisoners in New York state and city jails has risen dramat...
The United States prison population has grown at alarming and unprecedented rates in recent decades,...
Disruption of families through incarceration of parents has become an increasingly serious problem o...
Background: Out of the 11 million detained in prisons globally, the female prison population of 740,...
Copyright Lucy Baldwin article developed from Baldwin . L (2015) Rules of Confinement .Time for C...
While the number of women is increasing among the prison population, so too is the need to accommoda...
This article considers the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) discussion paper released in November 2015.The...
Parental incarceration thwarts the relationships of children with their parents. Nurturing family bo...
Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and th...
International human rights state that imprisonment for mothers with babies should be used as a last ...