What does WIP stand for?

Skiffer (sociology, California State University-Dominguez Hills) begins the study with a review of the literature on women in prison and a review of feminist works, particularly those about Black women in prison.

FEW PEOPLE THINK of the men and women in prison as a pool of emerging writers, but Resilience Multimedia, a new publishing house in New York City, is hoping to change that image.

We went to Nigeria to look at the problems, and we looked at the problems faced by Nigerian women's families over here [in the UK]; we interviewed the women in prison to see why they carried drugs to discover what pushed them, what motivated them to do it, how they got involved and indeed what impact this was having on their extended family-because the stigmatisation of a prison sentence in West Africa is no joke.

Women in prison were more likely than the men to have had at least one member of their immediate family who had been incarcerated: 47% of female inmates and 37% of male inmates.

Arafaa Sheikh Musa, secretarygeneral of Al Manar Volunteer Organisationwhich helps and educates women in prisonsaid: "On an average day there are about 800 to 1,000 women in prison.

The number of women in prison rose six per cent to 351.

Coroner David Hinchliff asked her to appear at Wakefield Coroner's Court to put the death of Mary Pearson in the context of women in prison.

In May, the Institute on Women and Criminal Justice released a report on the growth of the number of women in prison in the U.