does american jails separate genders
One might think that the one million women in the American criminal justice system would receive gender-specific services, or that prison programs would target their needs to lower recidivism rates.But for the 199,000 women in U.S. prisons and jails, and the 950,000 on probation and parole, that's simply not the case.o improve services for women, psychologists, parole officers and prison employees need more education on how women in the criminal justice system differ from men, she said.