SOC301H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Healing Lodge, A Safe Place, Correctional Service Of Canada
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Fastest growing population, a larger number of women are being sentenced to prison, yet their numbers are small compared to the overall prison population. Mainly victims of abuse, majority are mothers, and have no high school diploma. Average age is 27, mother, limited education, likely in an abusive relationship, continues to experience physical, sexual, and emotional violence. The goal was to implement changes for federally sentenced women. Do not see women as a danger to society. Many are suffering from substance abuse, which can be fixed through rehabilitation. Non-criminogenic needs: low priority i. e. poverty and health, ignores structural conditions. The fight that broke out stripped away female prisoners rights, but no one believed them, turns out the women were telling the truth and the case was reopened. The discovery that women too can be violent offenders. The inquiry concluded that an apology from the csc (correctional service canada) was necessary to the women to increase accountability.
