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An 11 page paper using the case of Marlene Moore to discuss some of the current issues of women in prison. Marlene died at 31, having spent more than half her life in prison and apparently without anyone looking to her background for clues to the behavior she exhibited either within or outside of prison. The paper discusses some of the problems unique to women in prison, and how they frequently do not receive the treatment that could serve them – and society – better than can incarceration. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KScrimWomPris.rtf
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in 1958, Marlene Moore was only 31 when she died. Emerging from a childhood of extreme physical, emotional and sexual abuse, her first taste of prison was at the
age of 13 when her mother surrendered her to juvenile authorities. In and out of prison during the ensuing years, she suffered injustices and responded with self-mutilation, finally achieving
the highest degree of self-mutilation when she committed suicide. Marlene received only the most rudimentary attention in terms of psychological evaluation and effective
treatment. Most of the professionals whose path she crossed after becoming a teenager took no more interest in discovering the root causes of her behavior than did the teachers
who labeled her as being uncontrollable during her preteen years. The purpose here is to assess the fairness of the criminal justice system, as it pertains to all prisoners,
but particularly as it affects women. The Prison Experience Marlene Moore was the first Canadian woman to gain the distinction of being officially
labeled as a "dangerous offender," a distinction that allowed the criminal justice system to keep her incarcerated essentially indefinitely (Chidley, 1996). By the time she reached the age of
27, Marlene had spent more of her life in prison than outside of it, following a lonely and isolated childhood with a lonely and isolated adult existence all to often
centered in the "segregation unit," Canadas version of solitary confinement. The significance of the age of 27 is that is when she gained the official designation as a "dangerous
offender," allowing the criminal justice system to do virtually anything it wanted with her. Schaeffer-Duffy (2000) reports that solitary confinement - the counterpart
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