Women Offender Programs and Issues

Federally Sentenced Women Maximum Security Interview Project: "Not Letting the Time Do You"

PART B: MAXIMUM SECURITY WOMEN OFFENDER PERSPECTIVES

In this part of the report, results of interviews with the maximum security women offenders are presented. These results are organized in the following six sections:

ˇ Women's Perceptions Regarding Maximum Security Classification

ˇ Identified Need Areas

ˇ Women's General Perceptions Regarding Classification Reduction

ˇ Security Classification Reduction: General

ˇ Security Classification Reduction: Programs

ˇ Institutional/Structural/Organizational Factors

Generally, each section is comprised of a number of relevant sub-sections. The presentation of results in each sub-section includes a summary of that data for the whole population interviewed, followed by a separate and more detailed accounting of the answers provided by women in the GP and SNP segments. To help clarify and emphasize the data results, many direct quotations from the women interviewed are included in the data presentation.