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=Women Prison Culture = Topics: == ==
 * 1) Language
 * 2) Sexual permissiveness/restrictiveness
 * 3) Family structure
 * 4) Food gathering and/or production
 * 5) Religious/spiritual beliefs
 * 6) Use of art (music, painting, body modification, etc.)
 * 7) Use of sports, games, entertainment, etc.

//**What kind of language do they use in prison? **//
"You are so 109.10 right now" 109.10 means that you are out of place. Being out of place can result in a disciplinary ticket, which can mean anything from a warning to solidarity confinement. "Football numbers" Football numbers refer to their sentence or how long they are in for.

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Sexual permissiveness/restrictiveness
//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sexual abuse. **// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sexual abuse in prison is a big issue in today's women institutions. According to Human Rights Watch at least 15 percent of females have been the victims of prison sexual assault. Either being from prison staff or other inmates. Women comprise only 7 percent of the state prison population, they comprise 46 percent of sexual abuse victims. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Male prison officials not only use force and violence to commit sexual assault against female prisoners but also use their positions to threaten and intimidate inmates into sexual activity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Based on the study done in female prisons, they found many different types of relationships between inmates. Relationships such as "friendship, pseudofamily membership, pseudohomosexuality, and overt homosexuality." Pseudofamilies are most common in female prisons. Pseudofamily is where people not related by blood, treat one another as if they were family. Sexual intercourse is not common between same-race but mostly beteen different races. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * //Sexual orientation.//**

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**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Family Structure **
[] //**Their inside family**// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pseudo-families have been developed in prisons as coping methods for women to survive the pains of imprisonment. They are formed for emotional support, economic support, or protection. Pseudo-families can compose of 15-20 inmates of different races who play the roles as mother, father, sister, brother, grandparent etc. Women prisoners are considered more isolated from their families outside of prison so they are more likely to form a family inside prison. The "mother" figure in prisons is usually someone who is a little older and gives out the most advice. The "father" figure is usually the dominant female who offers protection to the family in exchange for sexual favors. //**Their outside family**// The biggest problem with having a child's mother go to prison is who the child is going to live with while the mother is in prison. They start with finding the closest family member but if there aren't any close family members, the child is put into an orphanage or foster care until the mother is released. Studies have shown that children who are separated from <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">their mothers at a young age have experienced long-term developmental and emotional harm. Children who are separated from their parents at a young age have more physiological behavior problems including: depression, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior, withdrawal, regression, clinging behavior, sleep problems, eating problems, running away, truancy, poor school grades and delinquency.

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media type="youtube" key="-MZzOlTs5-M" width="560" height="315" Pseudo Family

Food in Prison
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While some prisons prepare their own food, many use staff from on-site catering companies. Many prisons today support the requirements of specific religions, as well as vegetarianism. Typical menus are designed to be low-sugar, low-salt, and to contain a moderate amount of calories. Most prison food in the United States is prepared with the blast-chill method, which allows a large number of meals to be prepared and then reheated at meal times. An example of a meal from a state prison is 2-3 ounces of meat or meat byproduct, half a cup of vegetables, three-quarters of a cup of a starch and three-quarters of a cup of salad with dressing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> media type="youtube" key="k2e8Nx9ox3I" width="586" height="333" People Try Prison Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_food

**Religious Beliefs**
Churches were among the first institutions to provide asylum for accused criminals. Prison Ministry is a larger concept, including the support of the spiritual and religious needs of prison guards and staff. Prisoners may become more involved in religion while in prison for many reasons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_religion
 * 1) Wanting direction or meaning in their life
 * 2) Improving their concept of their life
 * 3) Promoting behavior issues
 * 4) Gaining protection
 * 5) Meeting other inmates
 * 6) Meeting volunteers
 * 7) Obtaining prison resources.

//**Use of Art**//
Arts hold the possibility of both easing the trauma of having a parent in prison through activities, highlighting the issues of children of those in prison to a larger audience, and providing an alternative, less destructive path that may help break the cycle. It has been said that they have spent over $60 billion dollars in keeping people in prisons for longer and longer sentences. The prisoners have little to no resources that can help they come out balanced, healthy and crime free. For children of parents in prison, and for adults serving very long sentences, making and sharing art is very important opportunity. The art created can also serve an important role in bringing the voices of those most affected by prison into public conversations on the outside.

http://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/Arts%26America_PrisonsRehab.pdf <span style="background-image: url(">

//**Sports**//
Prisons have different types of 'sports' or activities that the women can do. The purpose of having sport activities in prison is to ensure the inmates well-being, helping the inmates become more comfortable of being released back into local communities, contrasting anti-social behaviors and the learning of social values and social rules. The most important factor of having sport activities in prison is to create a strong prison community. Sport can be considered as a steady method of promoting good health; particularly, regular physical activity reduces anxiety and stress, increases self-esteem, helps to control weight and has a positive impact on other health risks. Sport involvement can promote good opportunities to learn social skills such as, tolerance and respect for others. It can enhance the time spent with others so that anti-social behaviors do not become common. Women prisons can provide yoga and dance and allow them to go out in the courtyard for exercise and many other activities.

http://www.irsv.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91%3Aplaying-in-the-jail-sport-as-psychosocial-tool-for-inmates&catid=56%3Anumero-2--le-sport-et-la-prison&lang=fr&2690788e71c8be06946b85a08c14834c=49b925ba77721d7e2e7d0fe404045f48'