Should the Incarceration of Pregnant Women be Avoided?
Women are the fastest growing population in prisons today. Two thirds of these female inmates are mothers of children younger than age 18. The majority of imprisoned mothers are single parents who primarily committed non-violent crimes such as drug possession, shoplifting, fraud and prostitution (Wirpsa, 1998). According to Justice Work literature, a closer look into women involved in the criminal justice system shows that they are there because of lack of education, poverty, homelessness, drug addictions, and spousal abuse. Leslie Acoca (1998) states that given the rapidly increasing numbers of incarcerated woman and that a great number are in fact young and in their childbearing years, pregnant inmates are becoming increasingly common. In 1996, the National Counsel on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) did a study indicating that 18 percent of women inmates interviewed had given birth at some time during a past or present prison term (Acoca & Austin, 1998). Motherhood is a common theme in women’s prisons. Most get to see their children only on weekends, seldom or never because within hours of delivery, they’re newborn infant will be removed from their care and placed with relatives or foster parents. These infants ar
All women’s jails and prisons lack medical facilities for child birth and child birth complications, therefore inmates in labor must often pass through several layers of security on there way to community hospitals. These alternatives are both promising and effective in serving justice with the long time goal of truly rehabilitating-not simply punishing. When these women come back into the community they could make a future for themselves and serve as positive role models for their children. (Sacks, 1997)
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