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Parole for Women in California: Promise or Pathos
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
by Corey Weinstein
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 10
by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Pat Searches,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Education,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Parole,
Guard Unions,
Mothers in Prison.
Location:
California.
Women are not men, but the California Department of Corrections (CDoC) has treated them as such until very recently. They are housed in mega prisons, denied contact with their children and denied important gender appropriate needs.
The sexual abuse scandals in California women's prisons in ...
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- Parole for Women in California: Promise or Pathos, Nov. 15, 2005
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