Sociology 3358F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eof, Oxymoron, Suicidal Ideation
21 Nov 2016
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600 women are incarcerated in federal prisons. High percentage of them have been sexually and/or physically absued. They are supporting women on the outside. In canada there is no stand alone minimum security prison for women. Housing a women costs /day a day and /day for males bc economies of. 113000/year but if you kept them in the community and had some scale way more men than women programming it would only cost 29000. Were experiencing double bunking and 17% of the female pop are involved and its even higher for males. Although aboriginal women is a small pop they are still a huge pop of women in prison (35%) Almost 75% of women who are incarcerated have significant substance abuse problems. Lower rates of mental health issues in men than women because of socialization men act out, externalize and women internalize. The formal and informal structure of the prison. When you deal with the fear youll be denied parole.
