{"id":42,"date":"2005-10-15T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/10\/15\/national-workshop-on-female-offenders\/"},"modified":"2005-10-15T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T02:08:00","slug":"national-workshop-on-female-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/10\/15\/national-workshop-on-female-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"national workshop on female offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> although there are far more men than women in the u.s. criminal Justice system, female correctional populations have risen significantly in the past decade. today women make up roughly 7 percent of prison<\/a> inmates, 12 percent of jail<\/a> inmates, 13 percent of parolees<\/a>, and 23 percent of probationers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

a conference devoted to women in the system, the<\/em> 11th <\/em>national workshop<\/em><\/a> on adult & juvenile female offenders,<\/em> takes place today through wednesday at the marriott hotel in bloomington, mn. an informative ap <\/em>story<\/a> on the conference emphasizes some of the minnesota programs for mothers in prison and their children.<\/p>\n

when i interviewed minnesota prisoners about their political life a few years ago, i started by doing ten interviews in a women’s prison, then moved on to a men’s facility. my impression was that the first interviews were much “easier” — more women than men seemed to have developed a vocabulary for talking about things such as civic participation and their past and future roles in the community. so, i got a little spoiled as an interviewer. the men were immediately on top of issues such as individual rights, liberties, and voting but seemed to have given less thought to communitarian issues.<\/p>\n

i didn’t draw any big generalizations from a handful of interviews and this didn’t become a theme in the books or articles from the project. still, it made me think about something i heard from a warden at a women’s prison long ago but didn’t believe at the time. she said, “female prisoners aren’t anything like male prisoners — they are a lot more like women in the community.” consistent with the conference and the mission of the apfo<\/a>, the warden was deeply skeptical of a “just add women and mix” approach to correctional programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

although there are far more men than women in the u.s. criminal Justice system, female correctional populations have risen significantly in the past decade. today women make up roughly 7 percent of prison inmates, 12 percent of jail inmates, 13 percent of parolees, and 23 percent of probationers. a conference devoted to women in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}