Perspective
Aug. 26, 2014
Female inmates receive a basic right
The state Legislature has unanimously adopted Senate Bill 1135, addressing a California scandal of massive proportions: the sterilization of female inmates without proper state procedures. By Hadar Aviram
The 1960s saw a proliferation of prison research. Newfound interest in imprisonment and fairly lax human experimentation requirements brought researchers within walls and many studies of socialization, adjustment, deprivations, identities, the informal prison society and interactions with staff became classics in the field. However, almost none of these works addressed women's prisons. The paucity of research on incarcerated women was frequent...
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