Women Guards In Prison

the unique circumstances for female offenders are that, there are six institutions for female offenders across the country, including a healing lodge. All these six institutions apart from the healing lodge have sub divisions of different levels such as minimum, medium, and maximum security for female offenders. Healing lodges only accommodate women who are known to be minimum or medium security level. Women classified as minimum and medium security level are given the chance to live in a housing facility within community living areas, where these women are responsible for their daily needs in live such as doing the laundry, cooking as well as cleaning. Women known to be as medium or minimum security level who suffer mental health issues,

No-frills prisons and jails that take away prisoner amenities and privileges are part of the correction landscape. New policies are designed to make jail and prison life as unpleasant as possible in the belief that such conditions deter even the most hardened criminals. No one knows what freedom feels like more than the inmates in a Supermax facility. Their freedom has been taken away due to their behavior. What most people take for granted as ordinary everyday responsibilities are the things those in Supermax prisons fantasies. After conviction, these offenders spend the rest of their lives boxed in by steel walls. Their communication with the outside world is shut off or limited. However, the criminal justice system does not throw anyone

Being a person in a locked facility with the opposite sex can cause major problems for the officers, inmate and the facility, when men and women are confined in a space where they are limited by the people they see, this can cause people to begin to place the people they are in contact in a fantasy they have created either their heads or they will try to make it a reality. This is where the proper training would come in handy; the officer will know exactly how to deal with the situation without causing hostility which could cause injuries to one of the involved persons. When corrections put emphasis on the safety of its employees by increasing training, it helps to lessen the changes of officer injury or fatalities, but when the officers are not given this training, everyone pays for it. The lack of training is also important especially in ethics; a well trained officer will make choices that will be beneficial to the parties and to the facility. Not providing antiquate training will benefit the employees and the company. Diversity training in corrections is a great technique which helps lower the anxiety of working with or care for those of a different race or sex. According to Carl ToerBijns;

It was very common that women are being raped by jail guards in the United States. (Armstrong, 2013). Some you may hear about, most you will never hear about, because of the lack of media coverage (Armstrong, 2013). This paper will reflect on how jail guards have the access to sexually assault female inmates every day. This paper will also reflect on where the sexual assault may occur, when the sexual assault may occur, and the vulnerability of the environment in the jails where sexual assaults can be committed to the female inmates. These assaults happen in the jail system every day, and this paper will further more help one to understand the crime itself, and how to deter this from happening as often or even at all in the female jails. The power that the guards have on female inmates when imprisoned in jails are at an all-time high. (Summer, 2007). These female inmates have to rely on these guards for several things, such as food, clothing, and different privileges, if any is available depending on their stay and what jail they stay in (Summer, 2007). Not only do female inmates have to rely on the correctional guards in the jails for different necessities and privileges, but the guards have unlimited access to these female inmates (Summer, 2007). These correctional guards have access to where the female inmates sleep, and take showers/use the restrooms, and with such access to these female inmates, and the power that these correctional guards have over these

Only 29 percent of the guards at the Central California Women's Facility are women. This fact worsens the already-ancient problems of troubled women, many of whom are accustomed to coercive relationships, when they are placed in a highly sexualized, paramilitary setting in the custody mostly of men. An ongoing investigation of state prisons by the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project found that female inmates experienced some form of custodial sexual misconduct regardless of the prison or state; inappropriate sexual contact, verbal degradation, rape, sexual assault and unwarranted visual supervision were reported from California to New

“Since 2010, the female jail population has been the fastest growing correctional population, increasing by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent.” The prisons job is to hold male and female people captive because of their poor actions. The prison system is not in place to punish the prisoners with foul treatment like abusing them or treating prisoners like animals. The definition of a prison is “a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.” This definition says nothing at all about putting these women and females through excruciating pain and mistreatment because of the bad decisions they have made. Women experience ; Physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse

Many women who have been released from federal prison have reported that they have be either sexually or physically assaulted by a guard. Research has shown that the women prisons have 30% women guards and 70% male officers, this percentages give powerlessness and humility among female inmates which led to records of rape of the inmates or inappropriate and unnecessary groping during body searches.There was even a record of the case of Robin Lucas shows how the sexual identity of a woman may led to further abuse or torment by a guard. Robin Lucas was placed in a men’s prison where guards allowed male inmates to rape her. The guards teased her about her homosexuality, telling her that they could “maybe we can change your mind”. The worst part of having these rapist guards is having them instil fear and threats to inmates to not report them because the guard could easily just say how it was their fault. Even when reports of guards performing these acts, they are only transferred to another prison location instead of being terminated because of the prison not wanting any negative criticism on the situation that occurred between an inmate and a federal guard. Women inmates suffering from treatable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, previous miscarriages, and seizures have little or no access to medical attention, in most cases resulting in death or permanent injury. The failure to deliver needed drugs for inmates with HIV/AIDS has also been issues that haven't changed since reported. Many women in these prisons have had past history of drug abuse, domestic abuse, negligence, and sexual assault all leading to long term mental turmoil and illness like depression, post-traumatic disorder, and mood imbalance. With many of these mental illnesses in prisons it has led to many cases of out of control

Some of the most neglected, misunderstood and unseen women in our society are those in our jails, prisons and community correctional facilities. While women's rate of incarceration has increased dramatically, tripling in the last decade, prisons have not kept pace with the growth of the number of women in prison; nor has the criminal justice system been redesigned to meet women's needs, which are often quite different from the needs of men.

It is noted in research that women inmates are seven times more likely to experience sexual abuse, and four times more likely to experience physical abuse compared to male offenders (CASA, 2010). According to the research of Chesney-Lind and Pasko (2004) every 15 seconds a woman is beaten, and in the year 1999 85% of domestic violence victims were in fact women. In a qualitative Canadian study on women who use drugs and work in the sex trade, it was found that men condone their use of drugs by supplying them, and support their work in the sex trade. It was noted that in these relationships “violence - both physical and sexual - is common and the experience of and the threat of violence serves to marginalize women further” (Azim, Bontell and Strathdee, 2015, p.17). An interesting perspective on the victimization of women offenders is noted by Grant (2007) where she refers to the victimization of female offenders not only in the general society, but within the criminal justice system in correctional facilities. She articulates the victimization of women by male guards in prisons, in which case “some women are coerced into sex for favors such as extra food or personal hygiene products, or to avoid punishment” (p.138). Grant (2007) in her research articulates how the victimization of women is essentially overlooked in prison, she refers to the Bureau of Justice Statistics showing that women are overrepresented in comparison to other populations in prison to be victims of sexual abuse, making up 46% of victims of abusive sexual contacts in state prisons, and 28% in local jails. Due to the overt existence of the victimization of women offender’s drug abuse may be used as a coping strategy for these women. (Voorhis, Wright, Salisbury, and Bauman,

Female inmates have historically been subjected to groping, rape, and sexual extortion/humiliation. This treatment has gone on the way it has because there is a lack of preventative legislation in place. These guards see targets-- degenerates, society's refuse in these female prisoners. They have no voice, no power, no agency with which to arm themselves. In prison, they are no longer people, but cattle held in the custody of the state. No one, it would seem, has any place telling these men how to treat their herd. These people in positions of authority have free rein to treat the women however they want because no one is looking out for

Several studies found that female prisons offered fewer vocational and education program opportunities when compared to those offered in male institutions. In general, women across the country lack training needed to obtain jobs that pay a living wage. One aspect of this inadequacy is that, like the training offered in the reformatories of the early 1990s, many vocational programs for female inmates emphasize traditional roles for women and work.[] The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that people who are similarly situated are treated equally.[1] In order to be “‘similarly situated,’ groups need not be identical in makeup, they need only share commonalities that merit similar treatment.[2] I will be discussing

With women being arrested at a higher rate than men, we have to look at how women are being treated in jails. “My research in local correctional facilities showed that women are often put into facilities where both males and females are held, but where females are isolated in one particular part of the jails”

With regards to this issue of female officers observing and searching male inmates (“The Dilemma of Male Inmates and Female Corrections Officers”), it would make sense that it should work for male officers. However, this seems to be a very important decision and that will have large repercussions. Whether it is an inappropriate enjoyment or simply, part of the job, it this decision effects many more than the current situation. Yet, I do not believe that either case should happen, if there is another option. Only under necessary situations, should this happen.

Being a correctional officer myself, I have found that as a male officer we are at limit as where we stand post and patrol, we can only stand post on certain areas in the facility, so that put us at a disadvantage if a situation was to happen.

Prison is no picnic for anybody. Regardless of age, race, country of origin, sexuality-- life behind bars is, for lack of a better word, hard. That being said, the number of women in prisons across America has been rising at a staggering rate going from. And the conditions in these facilities, that's another story all together.