Incarcerated Women Part 2

Running head : INCARCERATED WOMEN PART 2

Incarcerated Women Part 2 : Offender Characteristics and Interview

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Incarcerated Women Part 2 : Offender Characteristics and Interview Session

Several scholarly literatures prove that the justice system in the United States is not designed with a female offender in mind . In this sense , female offenders are confronting more challenges in the correctional facilities including inadequate healthcare , and gender sexual orientation and racial based discrimination (Sharp Pain , 2010 It is estimated that the number of female offenders has

increased to 118 percent when the current number is compared to the number in 1990 (Harrison Karberg , 2003 . This is why Dealing with the rising number of female offenders in the correctional facilities has been one of the greatest challenges faced by the justice system because imprisonment of women has been known to have a profound effect in their being and in the welfare of their families

Proving the profound impact of imprisonment , female inmates Kayln Stage and Johanna YoungPeter were interviewed for this project . Through the conversational type of interview , the complexities of female incarceration were determined . The plan for the conversational type of interview was to visit Kayln and Johanna at different days allowed by the facility

Each respondent were already asked basic questions such as age , reason for conviction , and family background prior to the main interview Johanna , 27 , is surviving time for first degree murder while Kayln , 25 is convicted of drugs . Both of them have children who they call...