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Hidir, Achmad, and Rr Sri Kartikowati. "PEMENUHAN HAK KESEHATAN REPRODUKSI NAPI PEREMPUAN DI LEMBAGA PERMASYARAKATAN (LAPAS) PROVINSI RIAU." Marwah: Jurnal Perempuan, Agama dan Jender 11, no. 1 (June 2, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24014/marwah.v11i1.501.
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It is suspected that there is a potential human rights abused against woman prisoner’s reproductive health in Riau Province’s prisons. This research aims to identify human rights abused related woman prisoner’s reproductive health and found the affort to reduce it. The methods used to collect the data are interviews, documentation and observation. While Focus Group Discussion (FGD) conducted as part of the analysis stage interactive model (Miles and Huberman). The results showed that there is a potential human rights abused related to woman prisoner’s reproductive health in Riau Province prisons. It is occurred because of limited prison infrastructure, including getting access to goods essential needs during menstruation like pads. Efforts to reduce human rights abused against women prisoners in the prisons while improving compliance and protection of human rights is conducting the capacity building for the staff of prisons, setting clear standards compliance for the health rights of women prisoners, operating system of evaluation and monitoring of the implementation of the health right, adding women prisons officers, and build prisons that were intended for female inmates.
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Warjiyati, Sri. "Legal Protection For Juvenile, Female, and Elderly Prisoners in The Provisions of Facilities." International Journal of Law Dynamics Review 1, no. 2 (November 26, 2023): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.62039/ijldr.v1i2.21.
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A Penitentiary is an implementing institution of the criminal system that functions to foster prisoners, including in this case women who undergo criminal punishment are required to participate in a whole series of formation activities in prisons. In this case, the effectiveness of the formation of prisoners can set a good example and example to others, especially for women, children, and elderly prisoners. Then the supporting factors can be used as examples for better in the future and factors that can hinder the coaching can be found better solutions. The purpose of this study is to determine the pattern of coaching female, child, and elderly prisoners and determine the inhibiting and supporting factors of coaching. To overcome problems in the implementation of the development of women, children, and elderly prisoners, synergy is needed between all parties involved, ranging from prisoners, correctional officers, and related agencies to cooperate in the implementation of training for women, children, and elderly prisoners. For this reason, it is necessary to handle and coach to achieve better goals, and if the prisoner has come out, it will create an independent character and have a better leadership spirit
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Sexton, Lori, and Valerie Jenness. "“We’re like community”: Collective identity and collective efficacy among transgender women in prisons for men." Punishment & Society 18, no. 5 (August 1, 2016): 544–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474516642859.
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Recognizing that prisons house diverse populations in equally diverse types of environments, we utilize a unique data set and employ two well-known sociological concepts—collective identity and collective efficacy—to examine overlapping communities in which transgender women in prisons for men are situated and experience prison life. Findings from our mixed-methods analysis reveal that despite their considerable diversity, transgender prisoners embrace a collective identity and perceive collective efficacy as transgender prisoners more so than as prisoners per se; their collective identity and perceptions of collective efficacy are predicated on social-interactional factors rather than demographic characteristics and physical features of the carceral environment; and the more time a transgender inmate spends in prison, the more likely she is to identify with a community of transgender prisoners, but the less likely she is to feel an affective commitment to the transgender prisoner community or to expect other transgender prisoners to act on her behalf in prison. This novel application of dynamics generally understood to operate in social movements and residential neighborhoods—collective identity and collective efficacy, respectively—to the transgender community in California’s prisons sheds insight into the ways in which transgender women in prisons for men experience prison life, the loyalties around which prison life is organized, and the complexities around which communities in prison are structured.
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Allan, Maria M., and Margaret Giles. "Psychometric Properties of Scheier and Carver's Life Orientation Test in a Sample of Australian Prisoners." Psychological Reports 103, no. 1 (August 2008): 305–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.103.1.305-322.
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The psychometric properties of Scheier and Carver's 1985 Life Orientation Test (LOT), which is a measure of optimism, were examined as part of a study of education, training, work experience, and expectations of sentenced adult prisoners in Western Australia. All prisoners at five metropolitan public prisons were invited to participate and 453 accepted. This represented a response rate overall of about 41%, with response rates at each of the individual prisons ranging from 13% to 90%. The average age of the prisoner sample was 34.4 yr. ( SD= 10.2 yr.). The proportion of men in the sample was 79.7%. Mean sentence length was 66.9 mo. (58.5 for women and 69.2 for men), and the number of months of sentence remaining averaged 44.4 mo. (41.0 for women and 45.3 for men). Means and standard deviations of the LOT scores for prisoners were similar to those of other groups, and demographic differences between prisoners were not statistically significantly related to scores. The internal reliability of the LOT scores was acceptable. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the two-factor item-keying model fitted the prisoner data better than a one-factor model. However, the two factors did not simply reflect underlying optimism and pessimism constructs but were substantially affected by item keying.
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Davoren, Mary, Mary Fitzpatrick, Fintan Caddow, Martin Caddow, Conor O’Neill, Helen O’Neill, and Harry G. Kennedy. "Older men and older women remand prisoners: mental illness, physical illness, offending patterns and needs." International Psychogeriatrics 27, no. 5 (November 27, 2014): 747–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610214002348.
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ABSTRACTBackground:Older prisoners are the fastest growing group of prisoners in most countries. They have high rates of physical and psychiatric co-morbidity, compared to community dwelling older persons and also compared with other prisoner groups. Very high rates of mental illness have been found in remand (pre-trial) prisoners when compared with other prisoner groups; however to date there have been no studies examining older male and female remand prisoners.Methods:A retrospective chart review was conducted of all remands, to a male and a female prison, over a six and half-year period. Demographic data were collected pertaining to psychiatric and medical diagnoses and seriousness of offending.Results:We found rising numbers of older prisoners amongst male remand prisoners. Older remand prisoners had very high rates of affective disorder and alcohol misuse. They had rates of psychotic illnesses and deliberate self-harm comparable to younger remand prisoners. High rates of vulnerability were found among older prisoners and older prisoners had a greater need for general medical and psychiatric services than younger prisoners. We also found comparable offending patterns with younger prisoners and high rates of sexual offending among the older male prisoner group.Conclusions:Given the ageing population of many countries it is likely the numbers of older prisoners will continue to grow and given their high levels of both physical and psychiatric illness this will have implications for future service delivery.
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Adhikary, C. D., Munmun Mohanty, and A. K. Joshi. "Women behind Bars a Sociological exploration in Orissa." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 13, no. 2 (July 2013): 367–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1301300213.
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The present paper attempts an understanding of women criminals and their situation. The study is based on women prisoners in Orissa. The State of Orissa has 68 prisons that consist of 4 circle jails, 9 district jails, 46 central, special and subsidiary jails, and one Nari Bandi Niketan. A total of 277 women prisoners were selected from among these jails through census method which included convicts as well as under trials. The study is directed along the following four lines, namely social and demographic background, level of security and privacy for women in prisons, prison facilities and problems for women prisoners, and extent of human right awareness among the women prisoners. The study findings reveal that most of the women prisoners come from mariginalised socio-economic background. They are invariably poor and illiterate. Prison environment is severely gender insensitive. There is widespread sense of insecurity among women prisoners and they are not entitled to any kind of privacy. There is abysmal lack of awareness about human rights among women prisoners. It is very striking to note that 70% women prisoners even do not know the consequences of their criminal activities, e.g., a jail sentence. The study has relevance for understanding women criminals and has important policy implications.
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Balfour, Gillian. "Searching prison cells and prisoner bodies: Redacting carceral power and glimpsing gendered resistance in women’s prisons." Criminology & Criminal Justice 18, no. 2 (April 28, 2017): 139–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895817706719.
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In this article, I explore the routinized practices of prisoner discipline: searching bodies and cells in four Canadian federal women’s prisons. Through an analysis of post-search reports as well as reported incidents of use of force, I discuss three key findings: searching and confiscation patterns across institutions are not dictated by size of the inmate population or security level of the institution; the redaction of information by prison authorities is an increasing and pervasive tactic of penal governance legitimated through an inter-legality of privacy and security; and that the searching of prisoner bodies and cells suggests a highly discretionary use of searching authority across women’s federal prisons that produces a gendered organizational logic. The text of the reports implies how women prisoners continue to be censured for their errant behaviour through the confiscation of personal items deemed to be unauthorized. These data also illustrate the ways in which women prisoners seek to achieve agency and self-determination within limited means.
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Mathiassen, Charlotte. "KVINDEFÆNGSEL – ET RELEVANT ALTERNATIV? EN DESKRIPTIVT BASERET FREMSTILLING." Psyke & Logos 36, no. 1 (December 22, 2015): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/pl.v36i1.22825.
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Compared to male prisoners, imprisoned women are a minority. 4-6 % of the entire prison population are women. Women primarily serve their sentences in four prisons together with men. Thereby, men and women in these prisons do not serve segregated. As no research based knowledge existed of female prisoners and their experiences ingender mixed facilities, the Danish correctional service ordered a scientific report on women prisoners’ everyday life in Danish prisons. None of the participating women had ever served time in a women’s prison and several of them were reluctant about the idea. The article analyses the different reasons for their reservations.
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Mathiassen, Charlotte. "KVINDER, KØN OG TILBLIVELSE – I FÆNGSLER." Psyke & Logos 36, no. 1 (December 22, 2015): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/pl.v36i1.22826.
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Compared to male prisoners, imprisoned women are a minority. 4-6 % of the entire prison population are women. Women primarily serve their sentences in four prisons together with men. Thereby, men and women in these prisons do not serve segregated. As no research based knowledge existed of female prisoners and their experiences ingender mixed facilities, the Danish correctional service ordered a scientific report on women prisoners’ everyday life in Danish prisons. None of the participating women had ever served time in a women’s prison and several of them were reluctant about the idea. The article analyses the different reasons for their reservations.
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Moshe, Keren Dagan, and Tomer Einat. "Anaconda, Jet Fuel, White Robes, and Miaow Miaow: The Argot of Women Prisoners." Prison Journal 99, no. 6 (September 20, 2019): 683–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032885519877380.
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This qualitative study based on research conducted in a prison facility for women in Israel aims to establish the existence of an argot among women prisoners and to analyze how it reflects their subculture. This research found that the argot focuses on seven different aspects of prison life: same-sex sexual relations, loyalty, prisoner status, drugs, relations between mentally stable prisoners and mentally ill prisoners, attitudes toward the prison staff, and threats and violence. The argot concerning gender-oriented distresses was found the most common, and the authors concluded that this aspect is the most stressful and threatening in the prisoner subculture.
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Ginn, S. "Women prisoners." BMJ 346, jan11 1 (January 11, 2013): e8318-e8318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8318.
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Phillips, Susan D., and Nancy J. Harm. "Women Prisoners." Women & Therapy 20, no. 4 (February 10, 1998): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j015v20n04_01.
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Aldrich, Donna. "Women Prisoners." MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing 26, no. 4 (July 2001): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005721-200107000-00019.
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Parkes, Debra, Kathy Bent, Tracey Peter, and Tracy Booth. "Listening to Their Voices: Women Prisoners and Access to Justice in Manitoba." Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 26, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v26i1.4537.
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The existing research into effective accountability and oversight of Canadian prisons has considered the situation of federally sentenced prisoners (that is, those serving sentences of two years or more) and has raised serious questions about their ability to access justice in the sense of having adequate and accessible means to ensure that their treatment and conditions of confinement are just and in compliance with the law. Relatively little is known about the state of oversight and legal review processes at the provincial level, where jail terms are short and prisoners’ rights litigation is rare. This paper attempts to begin filling that gap in knowledge by examining the situation faced by women imprisoned in provincial jails in Manitoba. The paper first surveys the existing international and domestic laws concerning prisoners rights and avenues for redress in Manitoba, before moving on to consider why and how those mechanisms are utilized or not, by listening to the voices of women who have been incarcerated recently at the Portage Correctional Centre. Finally, the paper considers what legislative or policy changes might be made to provide access to justice for provincial prisoners, drawing on recommendations and insights from the women themselves.La recherche qui existe au sujet de la responsabilisation et de la surveillance efficaces des prisons canadiennes a porté sur la situation de prisonniers condamnés sous le régime fédéral (c’est-àdire, ceux qui purgent des peines de deux ans ou plus) et a soulevé des questions importantes quant à leur capacité d’accéder à la justice dans le sens de disposer de moyens adéquats et accessibles pour assurer que leur traitement et leurs conditions de détention sont équitables et conformes à la loi. On connaît relativement peu quant à l’état de surveillance et des processus de recours juridique au niveau provincial, où les périodes d’emprisonnement sont courtes et les litiges au sujet des droits des prisonniers sont rares. Cet article vise à commencer à combler ce manque d’information en examinant la situation envisagée par des femmes détenues dans les prisons provinciales au Manitoba. L’article commence par passer en revue les lois internationales et nationales existantes concernant les droits des prisonniers ainsi que les voies de réparation au Manitoba, avant de passer aux considérations à savoir pourquoi et comment ces mécanismes sont utilisés ou non, en écoutant les voix de femmes qui ont été incarcérées récemment au Portage Correctional Center. Enfin, l’article examine quelles modifications législatives ou de politiques pourraient être faites pour que les prisonniers provinciaux aient accès à la justice, en s’inspirant des recommandations et de la perspicacité des femmes elles-mêmes.
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Syroid, Tetyana. "International legal mechanism for ensuring the right of women prisoners to health." Naukovyy Visnyk Dnipropetrovs'kogo Derzhavnogo Universytetu Vnutrishnikh Sprav 3, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31733/2078-3566-2021-3-44-51.
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The article provides a comprehensive analysis of international legal acts regulating the right of women prisoners to health; focuses on problematic issues that need to be addressed, including: creating a safe environment for the health of women prisoners, provision of medical care, protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article highlights provisions of the following universal and regional acts of a general nature, which regulate the provision of medical care to prisoners and establish special rules on the status of women prisoners: the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules) (1955 amended); European Prison Rules (2006); the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2010). The materials of the international specialized structures of the United Nations, in particular the World Health Organization, namely its European Regional Office, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, etc., which focus on ensuring the right of women prisoners to health, have also been considered. They are: “Health in prisons. A WHO guide to the essentials in prison health” (2008), “Women’s health in prison. Action guidance and checklists to review current policies and practices” (2011), “Prisons and Health” (2014), Joint Statement of International Global Health Institutions, during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime position paper outlining COVID-19 preparedness and responses in prisons etc. The emphasis is placed on practical significance of the webinars “Building Networks Behind Prison Walls” initiated by the United Nations and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which exchange positive practices, develop common approaches to prevention and treatment of certain diseases, continuity of providing medical care for those in need after release, reintegration of prisoners after release into local communities. Relevant conclusions and recommendations have been made in order to improve the situation in the area of ensuring the right of women prisoners to health and the provision of medical care.
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Borah, Keshabananda. "A Critical Introspection on the Enjoyment of Legal Rights by Women Undertrial Prisoners in Central Jails of Assam." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 28, no. 2 (March 26, 2021): 248–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971521521997965.
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Women prisoners constitute a small percentage of total prisoners in India. Although the numbers are small, their problems cannot be overlooked. In most of prisons in India, there is a lack of gender-sensitive prison norms. As a result, the needs of women prisoners are rarely realized. Since the beginning of the enactments of prison rules in India in 1894, different committees and commission have been formed for the protection of the rights of women prisoners in general and undertrial prisoners in particular. However, it is worrisome that their rights continue to be violated in different ways by different authorities. Through this research article, the researcher tries to highlight whether the women undertrial prisoners in the central jails of the state of Assam in India have been able to avail the legal rights incorporated in the Assam Jail Manual, 1987, and the Model Prison Manual of India, 2016. In this study, qualitative analysis has been done by taking into consideration the perception of women undertrial prisoners, jail officials and legal experts about the legal rights of women undertrial prisoners in central jails of Assam.
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Hidayati, Nur Oktavia, Suryani Suryani, Laili Rahayuwati, Berlian Isnia Fitrasanti, and Che an Ahmad. "A Scoping Review of Correctional-Based Interventions for Women Prisoners with Mental Health Problems." Social Sciences 12, no. 8 (August 14, 2023): 452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12080452.
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Women prisoners are a population at a high risk of experiencing stress, anxiety, and other mental health problems. This is because stressors in prisons, such as strict prison rules, intimidation, and conflicts with other inmates and staff, cause a high prevalence of mental health problems in women prisoners. Mental health services, such as correctional-based interventions, are an important part of overcoming these problems. Therefore, this study aimed to identify correctional-based interventions for women prisoners with mental health problems, specifically to determine the types of correctional-based interventions, the types of mental health problems experienced by women prisoners, and the effectiveness of the interventions. The method used was a scoping review based on Arksey and O’Malley’s framework. Articles were searched using Scopus, CINAHL, PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar with the keywords “Mental Health Care” OR “Mental Health Services” AND “Correctional Program” AND “Interventions” AND “Mental Disorder” OR “Mental Health Problems” AND Women” OR “Female” AND “Inmates” OR “Offenders” OR “Prisoners” OR “Convicts”. The inclusion criteria used were the year of publication (2000–2023), full-text articles in English, and the study sample was women prisoners with mental health problems. After selection, a total of 10 articles were found to meet the review inclusion criteria. The results showed that the correctional-based interventions given to women prisoners with mental health problems included Yoga, which combines mind and body; Seeking Safety, which was a manual CBT model; Transactional Analysis (TA) training program to enhance communication, relationships, and personal well-being; Transcendental Meditation (TM), a simple technique to reduce mental stress; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches the ability to accept painful or unwanted emotions; and Trauma Effect Regulation to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). All correctional-based interventions had significant results and can be used by health practitioners in prisons to address mental health problems experienced by women prisoners.
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Marzano, Lisa, Karen Ciclitira, and Joanna R. Adler. "Non-suicidal self-harm amongst incarcerated men: a qualitative study." Journal of Criminal Psychology 6, no. 4 (November 7, 2016): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcp-04-2016-0017.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the needs and motivations of incarcerated men who self-harm with no apparent suicidal intent. These have received little attention in research and policy, despite men accounting for a high and increasing proportion of self-harm in prisons. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 adult male prisoners with a recent history or thoughts of non-suicidal self-harm. The interviews were analysed drawing on principles of thematic analysis and discourse analysis. Findings Against a backdrop of early traumatic experiences and more recent adverse events (including prison-related ones), self-harm was described by many as a desperate – but meaningful – coping strategy; both a means of releasing tension, sadness and frustration, and of being heard in an unresponsive system. Originality/value These findings echo those of research conducted with women (including women prisoners) who self-harm, but challenge some of the more negative ways in which non-suicidal male prisoner self-harm has been portrayed in the (scant) previous literature. As well as pointing to the need for greater awareness of the complex needs of men in prisons, they underscore the importance of (also) exploring – and perhaps addressing – the issue of self-harm separately from suicide, and of striving to make prisons, as well as prisoners, “healthier” and better able to cope with pressure.
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Shawver, Lois, and Douglas Kurdys. "Shall We Employ Women Guards in Male Prisons?" Journal of Psychiatry & Law 15, no. 2 (June 1987): 277–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009318538701500208.
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Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, United States prisons have begun hiring women to work as guards in male prisons. In recent years, this policy has been challenged in the courts on two grounds: first, that women guards are a security risk, and second, that they invade prisoners' privacy. Research cited in this article questions the validity of both of these claims. Women guards appear to reduce tensions in male prisons and to be in less danger than the male guards. Three criteria are suggested for evaluating privacy invasion in particular cases, and using these criteria it appears that most prisons can avoid privacy invasion of male prisoners without excluding women from positions as guards.
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Fathonah, Rini, Nikmah Rosidah, Maroni, Mashuril Anwar, and Andre Arya Pratama. "Legal Study on Fulfilling the Rights of Women Prisoners in Correctional Institutions." Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 11, no. 12 (December 12, 2023): e2204. http://dx.doi.org/10.55908/sdgs.v11i12.2204.
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Objective: Female prisoners are prisoners who must be given special protection, especially in fulfilling their rights, because they have different natures from men. With such a nature, it becomes the main basis for the need for legal protection for women. However, in essence, these regulations still generally regulate the rights of prisoners, as we know that women will experience conditions that men do not experience, such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. So this becomes further research to analyze the fulfillment of the rights of female prisoners in correctional institutions. This research aims to analyze the implementation of fulfilling the rights of female prisoners based on Law Number 22 of 2022 concerning Corrections. Method: This research is a type of normative juridical and sociological juridical research, with the approaches used, namely the statutory approach, case approach, conceptual approach, and comparative approach. By qualitative research methods, in this research, the data analysis used is qualitative research method analysis models. Result: The rights of convicts must be given due attention in prisons, especially female convicts. Remember that there are many things that women experience that men do not experience, such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. However, there is still a lack of facilities such as a lactation room for breastfeeding for prisoners who are pregnant, and/or if the child is having a tantrum, this room can be used so as not to disturb the activities of other prisoners. Conclusion: Fulfilling the rights of prisoners is an important aspect of efforts to create better human resources after training in correctional institutions. The rights of convicts must be given due attention in prisons, especially female convicts. However, there is still a lack of facilities such as a lactation room for breastfeeding for prisoners who are pregnant, and/or if the child is having a tantrum, this room can be used so as not to disturb the activities of other prisoners. Apart from that, there are no regulations that specifically regulate the rights of female prisoners who are pregnant, breastfeeding, and with children.
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Bhunu, C. P., and S. Mushayabasa. "Impact of Intravenous Drug Use on HIV/AIDS among Women Prisoners: A Mathematical Modelling Approach." ISRN Computational Biology 2013 (December 12, 2013): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/718039.
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Intravenous drug use and tattooing remain one of the major routes of HIV/AIDS transmission among prisoners. We formulate and analyze a deterministic model for the role of intravenous drug use in HIV/AIDS transmission among women prisoners. With the aid of the Centre Manifold theory, the endemic equilibrium is shown to be locally asymptotically stable when the corresponding reproduction number is greater than unity. Analysis of the reproduction number and numerical simulations suggest that an increase in intravenous drug use among women prisoners as they fail to cope with prison settings fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic in women prisoners. Failure to control HIV/AIDS among female prisoners may be a time bomb to their communities upon their release. Thus, it may be best to consider free needle/syringe exchange and drug substitution treatment programmes in women prisons as well as considering open prison systems for less serious crimes.
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Rzeźniczak, Angelika. "Suicides in Penitentiaries and Detention Centres." Teisė 116 (October 6, 2020): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/teise.2020.116.11.
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This article deals with the problem of suicides and self-inflicted injuries in prisons and detention centres. The main aim of the article is an attempt to determine the characteristics of a prisoner who performs self-destructive behavior. The second aim is to get to know better the problems of inmates committing suicides. Knowing these problems will help to find preventive solutions. The article describes the information collected during interviews with 18 people, including: prisoners (women and men), prison chaplains, directors of prisons, officers and employees of penitentiary units.
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Leal, Marto, Ligia Kerr, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, David Seal, and Carl Kendall. "Health of female prisoners in Brazil." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 27, no. 12 (December 2022): 4521–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320222712.10222022.
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Abstract The majority of the women in prisons comes from the poorest strata of society with limited access to education, income and health services. This contributes to the fact that female prisoners have a higher burden of adverse health events than both male prisoners and women in general population We objectived to estimate the prevalence of different morbidities and risk factors among female prisoners in Brazil. A total of 1,327 women were recruited in this cross-sectional study. Data were collected using a using audio computer-assisted self-interviewing questionnaire, rapid antibody tests and physical examination. The higher prevalences was of syphilis, infection sexually disease, arterial hypertense, asthma, common mental disorders and severe physical violence. Regarding risk factors, 36.3% have good knowledge about HIV, 55.8% were smokers, 72.3% had ever used any illicit drug, 92.1% are sedentary and 92.1% maintained an unhealthy diet. Female prisoners are disproportionately affected by various adverse health conditions. There is a need for an effective surveillance system inside prisons for early diagnosis and treatment.
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Lee, Jin Hyuk, and Jin Ho Jhone. "Determinants of Depression among Incarcerated Women." Correction Welfare Society of Korea 79 (August 31, 2022): 113–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.35422/cwsk.2022.79.113.
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This study aims to identify the current status of depression and related characteristics of incarcerated women, and to explain factors affecting the depression of incarcerated women in South Korea. For this purpose, this study used a sample of 171 incarcerated women from the dataset of ‘2016 Survey on the Right to Health in Prisons’. As the primary analysis method, a binary logistic model was used. As a result, first, regarding prison environments, long periods of imprisonment, short exercise time, and appropriate eating were significant predictors of female prisoners’ depression. Second, regarding individual and health factors, marital status before detention, number of health problems, and hard day to sleep at night were the significant predictors of female prisoners’ depression. Third, regarding women-related factors, pain experienced with untreated gynecological disease was the significant predictor of female prisoners’ depression. Based on the result, the study emphasized the need to consider the women-related factors to intervene the depression, and provided practical·policy suggestions.
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Eriyanti, Etty, Megah Andriyani, and Muhammad Muin. "Self-Esteem of Female Prisoners." NurseLine Journal 5, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/nlj.v5i2.17887.
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Female prisoners are special communities that are vulnerable to a decline in self-esteem. The purpose of this study is to describe the self-esteem of female prisoners in Semarang female prisons. Researchers used descriptive designs in this study. The results showed that the most women prisoners' self-esteem were moderate self-esteem (81.0%), high self-esteem (16.5%), and low self-esteem (2.5%). Most female prisoners experience a decrease in self-esteem, so that various efforts are needed to improve the self-esteem of female prisoners, especially community-based nursing interventions.
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Graham, Annette. "Post-prison Mortality: Unnatural Death Among People Released from Victorian Prisons Between January 1990 and December 1999." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 36, no. 1 (April 2003): 94–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.36.1.94.
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The extent and nature of unnatural death among people who were released from Victorian prisons between January 1990 and December 1999 were examined. A total of 820 men and women released during that period were identified as having died unnatural deaths while not imprisoned prior to July 2000. The rate of unnatural deaths among Victorian ex-prisoners was double the 1996/1997 Victorian rate of deaths in prison custody.The unnatural death rate of ex-prisoners was 10 times that found in the general Victorian population. Risk of unnatural death was greatest during the weeks immediately following release and greater among those who had previous imprisonments. Over half of the unnatural deaths were heroin-related deaths. Ex-prisoner heroin-related deaths accounted for at least 25% of all the Victorian heroin-related deaths.
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Kokab Jabeen. "PLIGHT OF FEMALE PRISONERS IN PAKISTAN." Pakistan Postgraduate Medical Journal 33, no. 03 (November 5, 2022): 48–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.51642/ppmj.v33i03.511.
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The conditions faced by female delinquents and convicts in the criminal justice system of Pakistan are deeply dismaying. Prisons in Pakistan resonate the helplessness of women, who apart from being in emotional trauma, prior to conviction, are often subjected to coercion and torture after being incarcerated.
According to a survey of female prisoners conducted in 1998 in Punjab (both convicts and pre-trials), about 78 percent alleged ill treatment during police custody and about 72 percent alleged that they had been sexually assaulted by police officials1. In 2014, the Justice Project Pakistan initiative revealed compelling evidence of abuse against 134 female prisoners, of which 82 had to endure sexual abuse in Faisalabad prison1. Women, who face domestic violence or sexual abuse prior to conviction, are more susceptible to serious mental health problems like anxiety, depression and low self-esteem during the period of their imprisonment, which oftentimes leads to suicide attempts. Delay in conviction, sexual harassment, poor medical facilities, lack of ante-natal care, and deficiency of proper care facilities for their children, lack of psychological support are amongst the few problems2.
A major problem that prevails in the criminal justice system of Pakistan is that most women are detained before they are convicted of any felony or criminal offense. According to the committee, of the 1,121 women in prison as of mid-2020, 66 percent had not been convicted of any offense and were detained while awaiting conclusion of their trial by courts. More than 300 women were detained in facilities outside the districts where they lived, making family visits nearly impossible. These prisoners included 46 women over the age of 60 and 10 girls under the age of 183.
Sexual harassment is very common in various prisons of Pakistan; Women are more likely than men to be infected with HIV as well as STIs like chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis when they first enter prison4. One-fifth of respondents claimed to have had a STI within the previous six months, according to a survey of female prisoners in Pakistan, and only 18% reported receiving the necessary treatment for these infections. Slightly more than half of respondents were aware that STIs existed4.
The committee constituted by former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Imran Khan to probe the issues faced by female prisoners in 2020 found that 134 women had children with them in prison, some as old as 9 and 10, despite the legal limit of 5 years. At least 195 children were housed in prisons as of 20202.
Pregnancy and care of pregnant women prisoners is a very important issue that is in dire need of attention. Female prisoners in Pakistan are denied their fundamental pre-natal and post-natal rights, which make them prone to contract infections while also putting the health of their newborns in jeopardy. Nursing and expectant females in Pakistani prisons do not have access to adequate nutrition and their predicament is further exacerbated by the fact that only 24 female health workers are available to provide full-time care to women and girls in prisons across the country. Moreover, female prisoners often give birth in the unhygienic jail conditions, which escalate infant mortality rates in the prisons of Pakistan. Due to the dearth of adequate facilities and resources, prisons are not able to fulfill the sanitary and menstrual requirements of women prisoners. During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was no enforcement of stringent measures to ensure that Standard Operating Procedures were being implemented, putting the lives of aged women with suppressed immune systems at stake 4,5.
Compared to male prisoners, female prisoners have higher rates of hepatitis and tuberculosis (TB).Women in prison are more likely than men to have hepatitis C (HCV) infection, especially if they have a history of injecting drugs. Inmates who are female are more likely than male inmates to contract HCV. Similar to HIV, HCV is spread through blood-sharing activities like sharing injection supplies or through sexual contact6. Compared to men, women are much more likely to contract hepatitis C from sexual activity. Coughing or sneezing can spread TB, which spreads through the air. The greatest risk of infection exists for people who stay in the same residence as those who have active tuberculosis. People cannot contract tuberculosis by shaking hands, sitting on toilet seats, or sharing dishes and utensils with a patient. Numerous prisons have tuberculosis rates that are 10 to 100 times higher than those in the general population due to overcrowding and subpar nutrition7, 8.
Children whose mothers were incarcerated may have suffered the trauma and loss brought on by their mothers' incarceration as well as other issues, and they may also have some attention issues and developmental delays8.
In light of these deplorable conditions, the government of Pakistan needs to ensure gender-specific services for female prisoners in order to alleviate their plight and cope with their psychological, emotional and social needs. The prison environment does not always take into account the specific needs of women, such as accessibility to free personal sanitary products for menstruation such as sanitary pads and enabling female prisoners to dispose them of properly to maintain hygiene7,8.
Female prisoners, who suffer from psychological issues after incarceration should be given the right to seek counseling for their mental health problems from psychiatrists and psychologists, appointed by the state8.Furthermore, the government of Pakistan needs to make arrangements for keeping women in separate prison cells, based on the type of offense they have been convicted with to resolve the issue of overcrowding in jails.
There is an exigent need for the government to make genders sensitive training available in all Pakistani prisons. Like pregnant women, lactating mothers have certain health and nutritional requirements which need to be fulfilled. Meals of high nutritional value should be provided regularly and flexibly to breastfeeding mothers and their newborn babies.
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Crittenden, Courtney A., Barbara A. Koons-Witt, and Robert J. Kaminski. "Being Assigned Work in Prison: Do Gender and Race Matter?" Feminist Criminology 13, no. 4 (September 14, 2016): 359–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085116668990.
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With a majority of inmates being assigned some type of work while incarcerated, work assignments are a staple of U.S. prisons. These work assignments are likely to impact not only prisoner behavior while in prison, but also may impact their ability to obtain gainful employment after prison. Historically, it has been noted that work in prison has been influenced by gender and racial norms and stereotypes. These stereotypical assignments may not be beneficial for inmates, especially in a time when work assignments are increasingly providing the only work skills inmates may receive while incarcerated. Using a nationwide data set of prisoners incarcerated facilities, the current study uses multilevel modeling to examine the nature of work assignments for male and female state prisoners and whether these assignments are based on gender and/or racial stereotypes. Results indicate that there are indeed lingering stereotypes influencing work assignments for men and women in U.S. prisons.
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Parente, Eriza de Oliveira, Marto Leal, Carl Kendall, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, Raimunda Hermelinda Maia Macena, and Ligia Kerr. "Leprosy among female prisoners in Brazil." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 27, no. 12 (December 2022): 4485–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320222712.08842022.
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Abstract To estimate the prevalence of leprosy among Brazilian female prisoners and identify factors associated with the disease. Cross-sectional study conducted between 2014 and 2015 in 15 Brazilian female prisons. The data of 1,327 women were collected using Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing and dermatological and neurological examination to identify suspicious lesions of leprosy. The average age was 33.4 years. Suspicion of leprosy was identified in 5.1% of women in prison, and lifetime self-reported prevalence was 7.5%. The variables that were associated with lifetime self-reported leprosy were: women in prison once being twice as likely to have leprosy; white women were 1.4 time more likely to have leprosy than non-white women; women who knew someone with leprosy was 1.9 time more likely to have leprosy; and women who shared a cell with 11 or more women were 2.5 times more likely to have leprosy than women who shared a cell with two or fewer people. The leprosy prevalence among female prisoners in Brazil were greater than that found in a Brazilian woman of the general population and show the extremely high vulnerability of this population generated through pre-incarceration poverty, as well as potential transmission in prison.
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Maslennikova, Valeria A. "“THE EDGE OF EXILE, UNWELCOMEˮ: SOME FEATURES OF KEEPING WOMEN IN PRISONS OF THE TAURIDE PROVINCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19th - EARLY 20th CENTURY." IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE, no. 4 (212) (December 28, 2021): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2687-0770-2021-4-79-83.
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The article examines the features of keeping women prisoners in the prisons of the Tauride province in the mid-19th - early 20th century. The problems of keeping prisoners in detention centers and prison castles are highlighted and described. The article uses subsequently introduced into scientific circulation, previously unpublished documents concerning the inspections of prisons in the Tauride province. Implementation of criminal responsibility in the Russian Empire in the mid-19th - early 20th century was carried out by sending prisoners to jails, arrest houses, correctional prison departments, however, until the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite the stable increase in female crime, there were very few female representatives in places of imprisonment. At the moment, science is looking for solutions that can improve the quality of the penitentiary system in relation to women. In this regard, it is especially relevant to study the characteristics of female prison detention in retrospect. There are currently no sources that would provide a full picture of the social well-being of women in prisons and detention centers in the Tauride province, which in turn makes research on this issue relevant. The reconstruction of a woman's position, as well as her social well-being in prison, is based on all-Russian studies, which provide fragmentary information about certain aspects.
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Beddu, Sumiyati, and Darmawati Darmawati. "Solution For The Development Of Prisoners In Class III Gorontalo Women's Prison." Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist 6, no. 1 (December 26, 2021): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.35326/volkgeist.v6i1.1628.
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The correctional facility is an implementing agency of the criminal system that has a function to foster citizens of correctional development, including in this case women undergoing an obligatory sentence to participate in a whole series of coaching activities in the correctional institution. This paper aims to look at the implementation of this form of guidance and find the right solution related to the problem of guiding prisoners in women's prisons, especially Class III Gorontalo prisons. The results obtained were that the implementation of the existing forms of guidance at the Class III Gorontalo Women's Prison was divided into three stages of coaching, namely the initial stage, the advanced stage and the final stage coaching. To overcome problems in the implementation of coaching women prisoners, synergy is needed between all parties involved, starting from prisoners, correctional officers and related agencies to cooperate with each other in the implementation of training for female prisoners. For this reason, it is necessary to repair and add infrastructure to support coaching activities and to involve officers in prisons through training activities that can support the implementation of coaching. Concerning the handicrafts of prisoners, it is also expected to increase marketing through the media, given the condition of Covid 19 which limits people from being able to interact directly with prisoners in prison
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Dunbar Winsor, Katharine, and Amy Sheppard. "Dance as Revolution: Exploring Prisoner Agency Through Arts-based Methods." Studies in Social Justice 17, no. 2 (March 30, 2023): 222–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v17i2.2722.
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Carceral spaces such as prisons are designed to restrict freedoms and keep inhabitants confined and under surveillance through various mechanisms. As a result, prisons are spaces where movement is restricted through confinement, while prisoners’ ability to move is conflated with freedom. We aim to move beyond this dichotomy and consider a complex rethinking of the body in criminological theory and practice through dance in carceral space. In doing so, we explore under what conditions movement represents agentic practices. Understanding these nuances requires an interrogation of prisoner agency, including prisoners’ subtle maneuverability of power dynamics within the prison. We explore these dynamics using feminist and arts-based methods, specifically dance workshops delivered to twenty participants incarcerated in a Canadian provincial women’s prison. We find that movement and expression in prison may create moments of agentic freedom for incarcerated women under certain conditions. We argue that more nuanced understandings of incarcerated women’s agency can be found in their daily negotiations of time and space, and movement can provide numerous meanings. Our findings suggest arts-based approaches within prison environments create opportunities for women to express their identity and sexuality through movement in ways otherwise not permitted in prison. For many incarcerated women in this study, this sense of freedom may be associated with the ability to focus and take care of themselves while confined.
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Francisco, Nicole A. "Bodies in Confinement: Negotiating Queer, Gender Nonconforming, and Transwomen’s Gender and Sexuality behind Bars." Laws 10, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws10020049.
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The criminal punishment system plays a critical role in the production of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. The regulation of marginalized women’s bodies—transwomen, butches, and lesbians—in confinement reproduces cis-heteronormativity. Echoing the paternalistic claims of protection that have inspired “bathroom bills,” gender-segregated prison facilities have notoriously condemned transwomen prisoners to men’s prisons for the “safety” of women’s prisons, constructing cisgender women as “at risk” of sexual assault and transgender women as “risky”, overlooking the reality of transwomen as the most at risk of experiencing sexual violence in prisons. Prisons use legal and medical constructions of gender that pathologize transgender identity in order to legitimize health concerns; for example, the mutilation of the body in an effort to remove unwanted genitalia as evidence to warrant a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, or later gender dysphoria. This construction of transgender identity as a medical condition that warrants treatment forces prisoners to pathologize their gender identity in order to access adequate gender-affirming care. By exploring the writings of queer and trans prisoners, we can glean how heteronormativity structures gender and sexuality behind bars and discover how trans prisoners work to assemble knowledge, support, and resources toward survival.
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Yap, Lorraine, Juliet Richters, Tony Butler, Karen Schneider, Kristie Kirkwood, and Basil Donovan. "Sexual practices and dental dam use among women prisoners - a mixed methods study." Sexual Health 7, no. 2 (2010): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh09138.
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Background: Dental dams have been distributed to women prisoners for protection against HIV and other sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in some Canadian and Australian prisons for over a decade. However, we do not know whether they serve any useful public health purpose. Objective: To determine how dental dams are used in women’s prisons in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Method: Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we investigated women’s sexual practices with a focus on how dental dams are used in NSW prisons. Results: Although 71 of the 199 (36%) women reported having had sex with another inmate, with oral sex involved in most encounters, only eight (4%) had ever used a dental dam. The main sources of STI transmission risk among women prisoners were oral sex, manual sex and sharing dildos. Furthermore, sharing razors could also allow the transmission of blood-borne viruses, which could occur during sex in the presence of cuts or menstrual fluid. The high rates of hepatitis B and C among incarcerated women compound this risk. Conclusion: Dental dams are not widely used by women prisoners and we question their utility in women’s prisons. Oral sex is an important risk factor for acquisition of herpes simplex virus type 1, but most women in NSW prisons (89%) are already infected. Condoms and latex gloves may have more use. Condoms could be used as a barrier on shared dildos and sex toys, while latex gloves could be used to protect cut and grazed hands from vaginal and menstrual fluids.
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Khan, Sadia. "Rights of Women Prisoners in India: Nexus Between the Pervasive Impact of Patriarchy and the Problem of Women Prisoners." International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews 4, no. 7 (July 2023): 1191–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.55248/gengpi.4.723.48950.
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Michael, Michael, and Priscilla Epifania Ariaji. "DESAIN PROTOTIPE PENJARA PEREMPUAN DENGAN PENDEKATAN RETHINKING TYPOLOGY DAN ARSITEKTUR EMPATI." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 5, no. 2 (October 31, 2023): 1067–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v5i2.24256.
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Women Prison Architecture is the design and structure of a prison building specifically intended to hold female prisoners. Women's prisons are designed with the special needs, security and welfare of female prisoners in mind. Women's prisons in Indonesia have various problems, especially the physical environment that has not followed the standards so that the conditions of this prison become less humane for women prisoners. This phenomenon of problems occurs due to a lack of empathy and understanding of the definition of punishment towards the needs of women in Indonesia. Empathy is an integral part of architecture, because without empathy in the design process it can lead to architectural design failures that can reduce the quality of life of building users. This paper discusses the design of a prototype women's prison with a rethinking typology and empathy architecture approach. The first step of Rethinking Typology of women's prisons by dissecting each element of the typology of women's prisons based on the needs of women prisoners and the next step is completed through; programming; configuration of a new typology of women's prison architecture. The purpose of this Rethinking Typology is to produce a prototype of a women's prison that meets the standards and needs of women today. The new prototype emphasizes humanitarian standards and the needs of women. The new prototype is designed to respond to nature in order to create a healthy atmosphere for women prisoners. The surveillance system utilizes anti-authoritarian principles through the use of technology to create a non-intimidating prison environment. The design is also supported by re-empowering architectural programming so that women prisoners can be productive while in prison. This prototype can provide a balance of conducive living spaces that can help encourage women prisoners in the recovery or rehabilitation process for reintegration into the community. Keywords: empathic architecture; prison prototype; rethinking typology; women prison architecture; women prisoners Abstrak Arsitekur Penjara Perempuan merupakan sebuah desain dan struktur bangunan penjara yang ditujukan khusus untuk menahan tahanan perempuan. Penjara perempuan dirancang dengan mempertimbangkan kebutuhan, keamanan, dan kesejahteraan khusus dari narapidana perempuan. Penjara perempuan di Indonesia memiliki berbagai permasalahan terutama permasalahan lingkungan fisik yang sudah tidak mengikuti standar sehingga kondisi penjara ini menjadi kurang manusiawi terhadap narapidana perempuan. Fenomena permasalahan ini terjadi dikarenakan oleh kurangnya empati dan pemahaman mengenai definisi hukuman terhadap kebutuhan perempuan di Indonesia. Empati merupakan sebuah bagian yang tidak terpisahkan dari arsitektur, karena tanpa adanya empati dalam proses perancangan dapat mengakibatkan kegagalan desain arsitektur yang dapat menurunkan kualitas kehidupan pengguna bangunannya. Tulisan ini membahas tentang desain prototipe penjara perempuan dengan pendekatan rethinking typology dan arsitektur empati. Langkah pertama dari Rethinking Typology penjara perempuan dengan cara membedah setiap elemen tipologi penjara perempuan berdasarkan kebutuhan narapidana perempuan dan langkah selanjutnya penyelesaian melalui; penyusunan program; konfigurasi tipologi arsitektur penjara perempuan baru. Tujuan dari Rethinking Typology ini untuk menghasilkan sebuah prototipe penjara perempuan yang memenuhi standar dan kebutuhan perempuan masa kini. Prototipe baru ini menekankan pada standar kemanusiaan dan kebutuhan perempuan. Prorotipe baru ini didesain agar merespon alam agar dapat menciptakan atmosfer yang sehat bagi narapidana perempuan. Sistem pengawasan yang digunakan dengan prinsip anti-otoriter melalui penggunaan teknologi sehingga dapat menciptakan suatu lingkungan penjara yang tidak mengintimidasi. Desain ini didukung juga oleh pemrograman arsitektur yang dapat memberdayakan kembali sehingga narapidana perempuan menjadi produktif ketika berada di dalam penjara. Prototipe ini dapat memberikan sebuah keseimbangan ruang hidup kondusif yang dapat membantu mendorong narapidana perempuan dalam proses pemulihan atau rehabilitasi untuk integrasi kembali ke lingkungan masyarakat.
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Board, Thomas, Salma Ali, and Annie Bartlett. "Intellectual disability screening in women prisoners: preliminary evaluation." International Journal of Prisoner Health 11, no. 4 (December 21, 2015): 243–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijph-09-2014-0027.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a new Intellectual Disability (ID) screening service within a women’s prison in England. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of prisoner records was carried out to establish characteristics of women entering the prison, rates of screening completion and time intervals for all stages of the assessment pathway. Findings – In total 198 women were received into prison and underwent 202 ID screens. Nine out of ten women completed a screen, almost all on arrival or very soon afterwards. There were 23 referrals for secondary assessment but only four were completed. Most of the women identified for additional screening left the prison before this could be achieved. Originality/value – This evaluation is the first to show that preliminary screening for ID is feasible in prison. This screening alone is useful for prisons to make the kind of reasonable adjustment required of public bodies by the Equality Act. However, its value is constrained unless resources are also dedicated to the kind of additional screening which might lead to definitive diagnosis and care planning for intellectual disability. This model of assessment would be of considerable value in establishing prisoners at risk by virtue of different levels of intellectual disability and could be used to provide more reliable and routine estimates of prevalence contributing to overall better service planning.
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Martin, Margaret E., and Michie N. Hesselbrock. "Women Prisoners' Mental Health." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 34, no. 1 (November 2001): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j076v34n01_03.
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Caglar, Ali, Meltem Onay, and Caglar Ozel. "Women prisoners in Turkey." Middle Eastern Studies 41, no. 6 (November 2005): 953–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00263200500106057.
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LEGER, ROBERT G. "Lesbianism among Women Prisoners." Criminal Justice and Behavior 14, no. 4 (December 1987): 448–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854887014004003.
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PEELO, MOIRA, JOHN STEWART, GILL STEWART, and ANN PRIOR. "Women Partners of Prisoners." Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 30, no. 4 (November 1991): 311–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.1991.tb00719.x.
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LIEBLING, ALISON. "SUICIDE AMONGST WOMEN PRISONERS." Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 33, no. 1 (February 1994): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00790.x.
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Gatewood, Britany J., and Adele N. Norris. "Silencing Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-sanctioned Violence." Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 1, no. 1 (October 22, 2019): 52–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/dcj.v1i1.8.
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Protests and resistance from those locked away in jails, prisons and detention centers occur but receive limited, if any, mainstream attention. In the United States and Canada, 61 instances of prisoner unrest occurred in 2018 alone. In August of the same year, incarcerated men and women in the United States planned nineteen days of peaceful protest to improve prison conditions. Complex links of institutionalized power, white supremacy and Black resistance is receiving renewed attention; however, state-condoned violence against women in correctional institutions (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and medical neglect by prison staff) is understudied. This qualitative case study examines 10 top-tier Criminology journals from 2008-2018 for the presence of prisoner unrest/protest. Findings reveal a paucity of attention devoted to prisoner unrest or state-sanctioned violence. This paper argues that the invisibility of prisoner unrest conceals the breadth and depth of state-inflicted violence against prisoners, especially marginalized peoples. This paper concludes with a discussion of the historical legacy and contemporary invisibility of Black women’s resistance against state-inflicted violence. This paper argues that in order to make sense of and tackle state-condoned violence we must turn to incarcerated individuals, activists, and Black and Indigenous thinkers and grassroots actors.
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A. Simarmata, Vidi Posdo, and Luana N. Achmad. "The Analysis of Adult Female Anxiety in Facing the Future." International Journal of Health Sciences and Research 12, no. 8 (September 28, 2022): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220835.
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Anxiety is the overgrowth worried or discomfort in anticipation of internal or external danger. Anxiety is stated as pathological if the condition stays long-term and causes physical disabilities and distress that causes difficulties in daily life activities such as working or socializing. Anxiety disorder has a bigger chance of developing in women than in men. Throughout the detention period, if anxiety is ignored, it could weaken or even eliminate self-capacity and capability in prisoners. This study is prepared to seek anxiety and assess the severity in prisoners at Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Perempuan Kelas II A Kota Tangerang from August to October 2019. This study is published with a descriptive quantitative with cross-sectional approach, and the data is collected using accidental sampling, where the research population is 78 female prisoners. Data is collected by using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAR-S) questionnaire. The result shows that the level of anxiety is divided into four stages; average (67,9%), low (15,4%), middle (11,5%), and high (5,1%) level of anxiety. The highest anxiety level shows in the 20 – 30s year category, married category, and has never been prisoned category. Key words: anxiety, prisoner, female, Lembaga Pemasyarakatan
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Arthyka Palifiana, Dheska, and Ratih Kumoro Jati. "HUBUNGAN ANTARA TINGKAT STRES DENGAN KUALITAS TIDUR PADA WARGA BINAAN DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN KLAS IIA YOGYAKARTA." MEDIA ILMU KESEHATAN 7, no. 1 (November 16, 2019): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30989/mik.v7i1.220.
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Background: To have rest or to sleep is basic need that needed by everyone. To have enough rest or sleep will make body functioned optimally. By sleeping people can restore or to rest the physical after whole day activities, it can reduce stress and anxiety. It also improve concentration and improve ability when doing daily activities. Factors that affect quality and quantity of sleep include ill, fatigue, environment, lifestyle, emotional stress, diet, smoking, stimulant, alcohol, and motivation. The stress level on assisted citizen of woman’s prisoner will be more severe than who are not in prison so as stress can be overcome then the quality of sleep becomes better.
Objective:To know the correlation between stress levels and sleep quality on assisted people in woman Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta.
Methods: The research was conducted at women's prison class II A Yogyakarta. Research population was 117 women prisoners. The sample was 50 women prisoners. Type of the research was descriptive analytic research with cross sectional design. Statistical analysis used chi square. The sampling technique used purposive sampling.
Results: The stress level was mostly in high category as many as 17 respondents experienced stress (34%). Sleep quality of the respondents were mostly in bad category as many as 38 respondents (76%). There is a correlation between stress level and sleep quality on women prisoners in Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta with p-value (0.033).
Conclusion: There is a correlation between stress level and sleep quality on women prisoners in Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta.
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Palifiana, Dheska Arthyka, and Ratih Kumorojati. "HUBUNGAN ANTARA TINGKAT STRES DENGAN KUALITAS TIDUR PADA WARGA BINAAN DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN KLAS IIA YOGYAKARTA." Media Ilmu Kesehatan 7, no. 1 (April 30, 2018): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30989/mik.v7i1.262.
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Background: To have rest or to sleep is basic need that needed by everyone. To have enough rest or sleep will make body functioned optimally. By sleeping people can restore or to rest the physical after whole day activities, it can reduce stress and anxiety. It also improve concentration and improve ability when doing daily activities. Factors that affect quality and quantity of sleep include ill, fatigue, environment, lifestyle, emotional stress, diet, smoking, stimulant, alcohol, and motivation. The stress level on assisted citizen of woman’s prisoner will be more severe than who are not in prison so as stress can be overcome then the quality of sleep becomes better.
Objective:To know the correlation between stress levels and sleep quality on assisted people in woman Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta.
Methods: The research was conducted at women's prison class II A Yogyakarta. Research population was 117 women prisoners. The sample was 50 women prisoners. Type of the research was descriptive analytic research with cross sectional design. Statistical analysis used chi square. The sampling technique used purposive sampling.
Results: The stress level was mostly in high category as many as 17 respondents experienced stress (34%). Sleep quality of the respondents were mostly in bad category as many as 38 respondents (76%). There is a correlation between stress level and sleep quality on women prisoners in Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta with p-value (0.033).
Conclusion: There is a correlation between stress level and sleep quality on women prisoners in Penitentiary class II A Yogyakarta.
Keywords:Stress level, sleep quality, assisted people, penitentiary
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Smith, Catrin. "Punishment and Pleasure: Women, Food and the Imprisoned Body." Sociological Review 50, no. 2 (May 2002): 197–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00363.
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Food assumes enormous importance in prison: for many prisoners it conditions their life in custody and, in many respects, is symbolic of the prison experience. This article explores the complex relationship between gender, food and imprisonment through an analysis of data obtained from in-depth interviews and group discussions conducted in three women's prisons in England. The findings indicate that, in prison, where control is taken away as the prisoner and her body become the objects of external forces, food is experienced not only as part of the disciplinary machinery, but also as a powerful source of pleasure, resistance and rebellion. The implications of such findings for health promotion in the prison context are discussed. Here, the pleasures and consolations of food may well constitute a redefinition of what it is to be healthy in this context, one that challenges the dominant meaning constructed in current health promotional discourse.
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Novero, Caitlin M., Ann Booker Loper, and Janet I. Warren. "Second-Generation Prisoners." Criminal Justice and Behavior 38, no. 8 (May 9, 2011): 761–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854811406637.
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The authors investigated whether prisoners who had a parent in prison, “second-generation prisoners,” had poorer rates of adjustment compared to those inmates who did not report a history of parental incarceration. Among a sample of 459 men and women in prison, approximately half reported having had a parent in prison or jail. There was considerable self-reported childhood adversity within the entire sample, with relatively higher levels reported by the second-generation prisoner group. Second-generation prisoners self-reported more anger and prison violence and demonstrated a greater presence of institutional rule breaking in comparison to first-generation prisoners. Results were maintained after statistical control for the high rates of adversities in childhood. Post hoc analysis revealed differences on adjustment variables between first-generation prisoners and individuals with a mother incarcerated or with both parents incarcerated, suggesting the pronounced impact of maternal incarceration on long-term well-being. Results indicate that the negative effects of parental incarceration are evident within the prison community and have a significant relationship to inmates’ adjustment while incarcerated.
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Herrman, H., J. Mills, G. Doidge, P. McGorry, and B. Singh. "The use of psychiatric services before imprisonment: a survey and case register linkage of sentenced prisoners in Melbourne." Psychological Medicine 24, no. 1 (February 1994): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700026830.
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SynopsisInformation about contact with psychiatric services before imprisonment was obtained for a stratified random sample of sentenced prisoners, who were not receiving prison psychiatric care, in Melbourne's three metropolitan prisons. The sample of 158 men and 31 women was matched with the longitudinal person-linked records of state psychiatric service use in the Victorian Psychiatric Case Register (VPCR). Records of contact with the state services were found for 54 men (34%) and 19 women (61%), including records of in-patient treatment for 25 men (16%) and 15 women (48%). For 64% of individuals with a positive match, the case-note diagnoses were substance use disorders only. Diagnoses of psychotic disorders were recorded for four prisoners, and mood disorders for another six.In addition, clinicians conducted standardized diagnostic interviews and enquired about treatment and personal history. A further 24 prisoners reported specialist psychiatric treatment outside the state treatment sector.This study links the findings from an interview survey of psychiatric morbidity in prisoners with the records available in the VPCR, and emphasizes a number of matters important to the public health. The high rates of previous treatment for substance abuse disorders, the apparent pool of prisoners with largely untreated major depression, and the service needs of those with chronic psychotic disorders are discussed.
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Gadama, Luis, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Chimwemwe Mula, Victor Mhango, Chikosa Banda, Stephanie Kewley, Alyson Hillis, and Marie-Claire Van Hout. "‘Prison facilities were not built with a woman in mind’: an exploratory multi-stakeholder study on women’s situation in Malawi prisons." International Journal of Prisoner Health 16, no. 3 (April 27, 2020): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijph-12-2019-0069.
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Purpose Sub-Saharan African prisons have seen a substantial increase in women prisoners, including those incarcerated with children. There is very little strategic literature available on the health situation and needs of women prisoners and their circumstantial children in Malawi. The study aims to explore this issue. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative exploratory study using in-depth key informant interviews with senior correctional stakeholders (commissioner of prison farms, senior correctional management staff, senior health officials and senior officers in charge) (n = 5) and focus group discussions (FGD) with women in prison of age between 18 and 45 years (n = 23) and two FGD with correctional staff (n = 21) was conducted in two prisons in Malawi, Chichiri and Zomba. Narratives were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings Three key themes emerged and are as follows: “hygiene and sanitary situation across multiple prison levels and subsequent health implications for women”; “nutritional provision and diets of women and children in prison”; and “women’s access to prison-based and external health services”. Divergence or agreement across perspectives around sanitation and disease prevention, adequacy of nutrition for pregnant or breast-feeding women, health status and access to prison-based health care are presented. Practical implications Garnering a contemporary understanding of women’s situation and their health-care needs in Malawian prisons can inform policy and correctional health practice change, the adaptation of technical guidance and improve standards for women and their children incarcerated in Malawi. Originality/value There is a strong need for continued research to garner insight into the experiences of women prisoners and their children, with a particular emphasis on health situation.