Women and Corrections

California Coalition for Women Prisoners	Information and statistics on women in California prisons
Correctional Association of New Work: Women in Prison Project	Profiles incarcerated women in the US and in the state of New York
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation	Information relevant to female inmates
Federal Bureau of Prisons Home Page	US Bureau of Prisons, including evaluation and statistical reports
Human Rights Watch: Prison Conditions and the Treatment of Prisoners	Prison conditions, prison abuses, human rights protections for prisoners, and related issues
Impact on Children of Women in Prison	A fact sheet from Amnesty International
Incarcerated Women: Facts and Figures	Useful set of recent data from the "Women Coping in Prison" site on incarcerated women.
International Centre for Prison Studies	Policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment
Justice Department settles Litigation to end Sexual Misconduct and Invasions of Privacy in Arizona State Women's Prisons.	Female inmates housed will now be protected from rapes and sexual assaults says Department of Justice and the state of Arizona
Mike Barber Ministries	Prison Ministry for Men and Women
Prison Activist Resource Center: Report	Report about women in prison
Stop Prisoner Rape	Activist organization against rape of female and male prisoners
The Prison Activist Resource Center	Information about Women in Prison
Transformation of Federal Corrections for Women	Developments in corrections for women in Canada
Violent Women	A 1995 report from the US Department of Justice about violent female inmates
Women Behind Bars	A web site that hosts free web pages for incarcerated women
Women Coping in Prison	Web site associated with a cooperative research project between the University of Virginia and Fluvanna Correctional Institution (Virginia). Studies women's experiences in prison environments. Also contains related links
Women in Prison: Article	Copy of an article on women in prison, originally published in the New York Review of Books (2001).
Women in Prison: BJS	BJS special report on women in prison
Women in Prison: Book Review Essay	Essay reviews a book focusing on women in prison, depression, and family ties. Discusses incarcerated female inmates in North Carolina