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This 9 page paper reviews two articles regarding problems that women in prison face. One article focuses on the dilemma of maternal incarceration and how it affects children and the other looks at the inadequate state of health care in prisons. The latter piece focuses on a women's prison. The articles are each critically evaluated and compared. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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reviewed journal, Child Welfare, with an article entitled "Mitigating the Ill Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Women in Prison and Their Children. " The article explores the deleterious effects of
maternal incarceration on children, families, and society (Luke, 2002). The author suggests that child welfare professionals have paid little attention to the dilemma of maternal incarceration but two
changes have required the reevaluation of the predicament which is the dramatic rise in the number of women in prison, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (2002).
This article discusses the reality of maternal incarceration, analyzes one prisons attempt to provide programs to support inmate mothers and their children, and makes policy and program recommendations. Generally speaking,
the article looks at the scope of maternal incarceration, and evaluates two parenting programs at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Shakopee, something that purports to mitigate the negative effects of
maternal incarceration (2002). Ford & Wobeser (2000) write about health care problems in prison in an article appearing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which is also peer
reviewed. The subject of the article is health care. Authors suggest that in an enlightened society, prisoners should be entitled to the same degree of health care as is
the rest of the community. The article focuses on a prison medical care study that was done by Ruth Elwood Martin and talks about how the level of medical care
in prisons fails to meet community standards (2000). Martin found that 75 out of 100 women in the survey would accept Pap smear screening for cervical neoplasia if
it had been offered but a different study found that just 15% (2000, p.664) of inmates actually received a screening while incarcerated. The study further suggested that the level of
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