The Challenges Of Male And Female Life In Prison

In this paper I will explain how life in prison differs for a female as for a male. I will explain how they differently deal with the situation of being incarcerated and how it affects them both. I will show how the number of incarcerated male and female inmates has gone up throughout the years. I will talk about the challenges and rewards officers face when working with male and female inmates. I will also incorporate the different type of organizations and programs the criminal justice system offers to help them. I will include examples throughout my research paper of both, female and male, to show how they are different. Male vs Female Life in Prison As we all know females and males have always been very different from each other and being incarcerated makes no difference. They both have different ways of adjusting to prison and dealing with their new life. Laura E. Bedard (the first female Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections) said that one of her colleagues once summarized the difference between working with male and female inmates as follows: “When you tell a male inmate to tuck his

male inmates: The rewards and challenges of managing both” the writer interviewed two people who have had the opportunity to work with both, male and female. One of them was Shawn Gillis; he has worked 14 years with the Georgia Department of Corrections and with the Corrections Corporation of America. Gillis was always skeptical of working with females but eventually became the new assistant warden of operations at a female facility for the past six months. Shawn Gillis confessed,” I must say that my latest venture has been most rewarding”. He explained that the majority of females are very open to rehabilitation programs, classes and other activities. He remarked that males are very reluctant to volunteer for programs not because they feel they don’t need it but because males operate on peer pressure, male ego and