Reimagining Home: Redemption and Resistance in Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing

Signs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-227
Author(s):  
Leanne Trapedo Sims
Keyword(s):  
Prison Writing ◽  
Women's Prison

Coping on the inside: Design for therapeutic incarceration interventions - a case study

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amy Wagenfeld ◽  
Daniel Winterbottom
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Objective Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Adjusting to incarceration is traumatic. An under-utilized strategy understood to buffer and counteract the negative impacts of incarceration are nature interventions. OBJECTIVE: Outcomes of an interdisciplinary design studio course focused on developing masterplans for a women’s prison in the Pacific Northwest (US) are presented. Course objectives included comprehension and application of therapeutic and culturally expressive design principles to increase the benefits of environmental design within a carceral setting; collaboration, developing a deeper, more representative understanding of how design processes can improve the lives of marginalized populations; and enhancing design skills, including at masterplan and schematic scale using an iterative process and reflection. METHODS: A landscape architect, occupational therapist, and architect teaching team, with support from architects and justice specialists facilitated an elective design studio course to redesign the Washington Corrections Center for Women campus. RESULTS: In a ten-week academic quarter, six student design teams created conceptual masterplans for therapeutic outdoor spaces at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. Students presented their plans to prison staff, current and ex-offenders, and architects and landscape architects in practice, and then received positive feedback. CONCLUSION: Despite well-documented need for and value of nature interventions to improve health and wellbeing for everyone regardless of circumstance or situation, the project awaits administrative approval to move forward to installation.

scholarly journals Medications for opioid use disorder in pregnancy in a state women’s prison facility

2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 108159
Author(s):  
Andrea K. Knittel ◽  
Samantha Zarnick ◽  
John M. Thorp ◽  
Elton Amos ◽  
Hendree E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Opioid Use Disorder ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
In Pregnancy

Parenting Programs for Imprisoned Mothers

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Glasser
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Imprisoned Mothers

From 1987 to 1990 more than five hundred women participated in federally funded parenting programs at the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Niantic, the only women's prison in Connecticut. The major goal of the parenting programs was to maintain and strengthen the bond between incarcerated mothers and their children. Previous research had indicated that 70 percent of women prisoners are mothers of children under eighteen years old and that over 80 percent of the mothers intend to be reunited with their children after release. (See Phyllis Jo Baunach, Mothers in Prison, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988; and Linda Abram Koban, "Parents in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Incarceration on the Families of Men and Women," Research in Law, Deviance, and Social Control 5[1983]: 171-183.) Issues of mothering are central to the lives of women prisoners, and strengthening a woman's self-identity as a mother and her knowledge and skills in parenting has been thought to have a major impact on her chances for success upon release from prison.

Prison Writing

Complicities ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 131-158
Author(s):  
Mark Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Prison Writing
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