“WOMEN'S PRISONS” AND “MEN'S PRISONS”: SHOULD PRISONERS BE CLASSIFIED BY SEX? |
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| Authors: | Judith Resnik |
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| Institution: | JUDITH RESNIK is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center. She is the co-author of a chapter, "Prisoners of Their Sex: Women's Health in Jails and Prisons" in Volume II, Prisoner's Rights Sourcebook: Theory, Litigation, and Practice;(New York: Clark Boardman, 1980) and is the author of an article "Managerial Judges," to be published in 96 Harvard Law Review (December, 1982). |
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| Abstract: | What are the differences between “women's prisons” and “men's prisons”? That question is answered in this article, which documents that many institutions “for” women do not provide services designed specially for women, or anyone else. Moreover, some women's prisons provide fewer vocational, recreational, and educational programs than do institutions “for” men. Given the growing literature on the disparity of services and on the relative deprivations faced by many women prisoners, the author questions whether segregation by sex should continue to be used as a major premise of prison classification systems. |
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