Women in contact with the criminal justice system have specific needs.
Corrections Today › Vol. 67 Nbr. 7, December 2005
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Women in contact with the criminal justice system have specific needs.
"Success is not a doorway. It is a staircase." --Dottier Walters, author, entrepreneur Although women comprise a smaller percentage of the overall criminal justice population than men, they are the fastest growing segment of the population. Since 1995, the annual rate of growth in the number of female inmates has averaged five percent higher than the 3.3 percent average increase of male inmates (BJS, Prisoner Series). A combination of factors has contributed to this meteoric rise, some of them obvious, such as the staggering ...
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