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Study to explore influences on women involved in the criminal justice system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Study to explore influences on women offenders By Deborah Yetter Louisville Courier Journal June 28, 2010 As a young social worker, Seana Golder said she was profoundly influenced by her work with women inmates in a Louisiana prison -- many of whom had experienced abuse, poverty, addiction or mental illness. "I would go home at night and those women were staying there," said Golder, now an associate professor at the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work. "To me, it's how do we keep those women from ending up in prison?" Golder and three colleagues hope to answer that question through a $1.5 million, federally funded study aimed at developing research to better understand why women end up in the criminal justice system and how to help them stay out...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).