Search results matching tag 'Women Offenders'

Doulas for Inmates in Labor

schuhmls — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:43:25 GMT

I am looking for information and resources for Doula programming for inmates in Michigan.

New Radio Shows: Employing Offenders, Women Offenders, Victim Rights

Len Sipes — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:26:14 GMT

Jun 30, 2009 – "DC Public Safety" offers television, radio, a blog and transcripts at http://media.csosa.gov.

The site obtains 135,000 requests per month.

"DC Public Safety" is the social media service of the federal Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency in Washington, D.C.

The host is Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.

Employing Offenders--The show interviews Stefan LoBuglio, Chief of the Prerelease and Reentry Services Division for the Montgomery County Department of Corrections in Maryland and Anne Morrison Piehl, a Professor at Rutgers University who, in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, published “Preparing Prisoners for Employment-the Power of Small Rewards.” The research indicates that 90 percent of offenders leaving the Montgomery County system were employed upon release.

The research is available at http://www.manhattan-institute.org/. The website for the Montgomery County Department of Corrections is www.montgomerycountymd.gov/cor.

Women Offenders--The show interviews Supervisory Community Supervision Officer Dr. Willa Butler and three female offenders currently under the supervision of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency in Washington, D.C. The offenders present anonymously. They discuss their crimes, drug addictions, children, histories of child abuse, relationships with men and their lives up to this point.

Crime Victims--The show addresses crime victim rights within the criminal justice system. Those interviewed include Will Marling, the Executive Director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) and Jennette Adkins, Administrator, Green County Prosecutors Office in Xeina, OH.

The web site for the National Organization for Victim Assistance is www.trynova.org. The phone number is 703-535-6682.

This is the first in a series of six radio shows with NOVA.

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Reentry Research Continues To Report Out

Eileen Conway — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:45:21 GMT

The Urban Institute's Returning Home longitudinal study of prisoner reentry is continuing to produce reports of findings from its study. Three recently posted reports examine several aspects of reentry findings in Houston. Community Perspectives "explores prisoner reentry from the perspective of Houston stakeholders and community members." Women on the Outside addresses the experiences of women returning from Texas state prisons and state jails. When Relatives Return "examines the challenges of incarceration and reentry from the perspective of family members on the outside."

Re: Gender - specific policy & practice with women/female offenders

gonzalez — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:48:41 GMT

Hi there,

In california We implemented a separate female property matrix as part of the Gender responsive startegies. it has worked well with having female property and not male based policy. we have instituted many programs that are gender specific and good things have come of it. most recently we will be having a program called girlscouts beyond bars. this will have the inmate with her daughter doing girlscout based activities in the visiting room to bond both the mother and daughter.

L. Gonzalez

Re: New ideas

gonzalez — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:36:04 GMT

Oh boy Matt!!! managing Female inmates are more complex than male inmates ( i have worked with both) Currently I teach a 4 day Gender Responsive Class at my Female prison in California. Besides all the information regarding female offender pathways to criminality that is given, I also do common everyday scenerios with the staff through out the 4 days. they are based on understanding the way females communicate on a n everyday basis and so on............. Homosexuality is a tough one to manage. there is no magic technique in dealing with this problem that plagues all female institutions around the country. many women in prison no longer have any means of showing affection with the opposite sex and some times resort to having play families in prison. One such family member is either the BOYfreind (homosexual Partner) or the WIFE. I am not sure what rules and regulations your state prison has, but enforcing them may help a LITTLE bit. lets not kid ourselves in thinking we can stamp out this behaivior 100%. only manage it. Cleanliness is a problem with female offenders and as such we do have weekly Unit inspections and they are rewarded in having the cleanest unit by having the cleanest Unit go to meals first. this has helped since its inception 3 years ago. Violence; more often than not women do not start fights in front of staff, so having alert staff, plenty of communication and plenty of exercise programs (keep them busy) will help reduce the over all amount of violence that occures. inmates having girlfriends will tend to fight over them so both are inter related. INSUBORDINATION; women offenders do have difficult to manage behaivior but when she is not obaying orders good communication is key and keep the situation from escalating by not getting angry or closed minded. We have a program that seems to work for the worst of the management problems we encounter. we remove her from all program, remove most if not all her phone ,shopping and yard time privaliges. Basically they start with the minimum of things. as of yet not one of the inmates that have left the program has returned to this status of priviladges since the 1 year of having it. they do not like the lack of shopping and entertainment items like TV and radio. Matt you have opened a can of worms when it comes to female offender management. it is a tough subject with out a doubt.

L. Gonzalez

New TV Program on GPS Supervision of Offenders--New Video on Reentry for Women Offenders—"DC Public Safety" at http://media.csosa.gov

Len Sipes — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:47:29 GMT

New TV Program on GPS Supervision of Offenders--New Video on Reentry for Women Offenders—"DC Public Safety" at http://media.csosa.gov

Safety of Women in Prisons and Jails

Eileen Conway — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:14:00 GMT

A recently posted report, funded by the National Institute of Justice, extensively examines violence and safety in correctional facilities for women. Gendered Violence and Safety: A Contextual Approach to Improving Security in Women's Facilities reports on survey findings, as well as focus groups with both female inmates and staff, to examine "the context and correlates of both violence and safety in correctional facilities for women. The data support our original hypothesis that sexual violence is embedded in a broader context of violence and safety and that this context is gender-based," per the authors. The report, which is divided into three sections, includes recommendations for improving safety, focus group findings, and quantitative measures of violence and safety. The report is also accompanied by two brief bulletins, Violence and Safety Programs in Women's Prisons and Jails: Addressing Prevention, Intervention and Treatment, and Translating Research into Practice: Improving Safety in Women's Facilities.

Correctional Ministry Outreach

kenneth.varney — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:22:24 GMT

Hello, I am an ex correction officer from Georgia and MIchigan. My pastor has put me in charge of forming our correctional outreach ministry. We are in the infant stages of forming the ministry and I am looking for training material to train our future volunteers on inmate manipulation and similiar topics. I would also like information on employment assistance or other prisoner assistance. Information on a prisoners family and children would be benificial also. I would greatly apreciate if anybody can help me with material, (videos and/or paper). Anything will help right now. You can email me at emmanuelproject@gmail.com or you can mail the material to Ken Varney, The emmanuel Project, PO Box 24, LeRoy, MI 49655. If any one from North West Michigan that is interested you can visit our temporary website at http://www.freewebs.com/the-emmanuel-project. I would apreciate any feedback about experiences they may of had from ministry volunteers/programs they have had at their facility. thanks Ken

Re: Inmate Manipulation

kenneth.varney — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:49:27 GMT

Hello, I am an ex correction officer from Georgia and MIchigan. My pastor has put me in charge of forming our correctional outreach ministry. We are in the infant stages of forming the ministry and I am looking for training material to train our future volunteers on inmate manipulation and similiar topics. I would greatly apreciate if anybody can help me with training material, videos and paper. Anything will help right now. You can email me at emmanuelproject@gmail.com or you can mail the material to Ken Varney, The emmanuel Project, PO Box 24, LeRoy, MI 49655. If any one from MI that is interested you can visit our temporary website at http://www.freewebs.com/the-emmanuel-project. I would apreciate any feedback about experiences they may of had from ministry volunteers they have had visit their facility. thanks Ken

"Women in Corrections" to Meet in Des Moines

llinke — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:59:00 GMT

The National Conference of Women Working in Corrections & Juvenile Justice will be meeting October 26-29, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa. Twenty-nine workshops (under five major themes), plus an all day session on evidence -based practices and gender responsive research are included in the program. Read more about the conference and registration infomation.