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Perspectives

In all of the years I've been doing this type of research, it was encouraging to interview some staff who were very understanding of the untenable structural and individual situations most of these women faced before they were arrested (and typically as children), and most certainly, after one or more convictions.

Dr Joanne Belknap
University of Colorado Boulder

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This page is a summary of: Jail Staff Members’ Views on Jailed Women’s Mental Health, Trauma, Offending, Rehabilitation, and Reentry, The Prison Journal, September 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0032885515605485.
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