Do Women Have it Better than Men in Prison?
by insideprison.com, May 2006 A recent study conducted by Ohio and New Mexico researchers found that women in prison have better social supports and participate in more social clubs and groups, allowing female inmates to better adjust to the conditions of incarceration. While females had no fewer rule violations than males, females nevertheless sent more calls to and received more calls from children outside the institution, received and sent more mail, had more visits, and participated in more social clubs and organizations, such as parenting programs, arts & crafts, or recreational programs. Interestingly, the only time there were discernible gender-differences in rule violations arose when males were married and females were unmarried. Married males broke fewer rules than unmarried females, even though there was no difference between married females and unmarried females. The authors speculated that social support is far better for male inmates than it is for female inmates because
