Women, Incarceration, and Reentry
Women, Incarceration, and Reentry
The Revolving Door of Prisons
Before, during, and after incarceration, rural women prisoners experience significant challenges that are exacerbated by harmful stereotypes about their criminalized behavior and seeming inability to make “good choices.” These stereotypes commonly abound within healthcare and corrections systems and in rural communities. In rural areas, high rates of poverty, mental distress, and substance use are compounded by the disintegration of community health resources. This chapter describes women’s experiences within and outside of a New Mexico prison and points to the layered oppressions that endanger their physical and mental health and foreclose possibilities for a successful reentry within rural contexts. This chapter proposes a social justice approach to treatment and rehabilitation that encourages helping professionals to attend to the manifold effects of structural inequities, trauma, and substance-use problems of incarcerated women.
Keywords: reentry, incarceration, rural, women prisoners, trauma, substance use, prison
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