Maltreatment of Women in Prison When we talk about crime in America, and when we talk about prisons, we are talking about power and powerlessness. We are talking about hopelessness and helplessness. The one thing prisons do very well is punish prisoners, especially women prisoners. Prisons strip them of their dignity, their health, and whatever self-esteem they once might have had (Watterson 12). There are over 90,000 women in prison today. The majority are in prison for …showed first 75 words of 1320 total…

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